United States, California, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, 37.77493, -122.41942ACT UP San Francisco (Organization)1980/1989James E. Allen (born 1954) was raised in Winter Park, Florida, within an Irish Catholic family of 11 brothers and sisters. He has always liked the rare and unusual and has a passion for Civil Rights memorabilia. He became a "picker" of antiques, some of which are now housed at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He amassed a major collection of lynching photographs and postcards and photographs in his antique business. In 2000, Allen published Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (with contributions by Representative John Lewis, Leon Litwack, and Hilton Als) from his collection. The following year he placed the photos on exhibit in New York to help draw worldwide attention to America's history of racial violence. When the National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened in 2014, it displayed the collection as part of its permanent collection. During the AIDS crisis in the mid to late 1980s he became an Atlanta activist with the group "AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power" (ACT UP). ACT Up was a diverse, non-partisan group united in frustration and committed to ending the AIDS crisis through protest and other forms of civil disobedience.Text on back states: We believe that the AIDS crisis calls for a broad movement actively engaged in ending the epidemic. We recognize that AIDS has had a devastating impact on the lesbian and gay community. We further recognize that the AIDS crisis disproportionately affects men and women of color. Any strategies to fight the crisis must incorporate these understandings. We DEMAND: massive funding to end the AIDS epidemic, a federally-funded education program, centrally coordinated research, a free, nationalized health care system, public accountability, a worldwide, culturally-sensitive funding program. We OPPOSE: quarantine or mandatory testing for HIV exposure, discriminatory measures instituted by public or private organizations against any groups or individuals with AIDS or ARC, or who test positive for HIV exposure, all laws that contribute to the spread of AIDS or discrimination, spending cuts in any social service or health programs, the use of inflammatory, isolating language.image/jp2enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1601Archives for Gender and SexualitySeries V: T-Shirts, 1985-1995LGBTQ Institute's Jim Allen papersAIDS (Disease)AIDS (Disease)--Government policyACT UP San Francisco (Organization)ACT UP (Organization)ACT UP San Francisco [t-shirt], circa 1980sStillImage