- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Olympics Out of Cobb County Protest
- Creator:
- Special Collections & Archives
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Date of Original:
- 1994
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, 33.94147, -84.57667
- Medium:
- photograph
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Photograph of a February 1994 protest in Woodruff Park, Atlanta, where members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) gather with colorful flags and signs. Half a dozen people are pictured and the center individual, wearing a black jacket, and ACT UP shirt, and sunglasses, has his fist raised in the air.
Olympics Out of Cobb (OOOC) was a grassroots movement resisting the decision by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) to hold the preliminary volleyball competition of the 1996 Olympic Games in Cobb County. Protestors borrowed tactics from groups like the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and pledged to protest all the way to the Games if necessary. ACT UP members are pictured here at a protest in Woodruff Park in February 1994. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/olympics-out-of-cobb/oooc_001/
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
Olympics Out of Cobb - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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