Jay Blotcher, in his High Falls, N.Y. home, worked as the media coordinator for ACT UP in the 1990s.
(AMY TOENSING FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
Chronicling AIDS activists’ darkest days
Harvard project collects an oral history
Jay Blotcher, in his High Falls, N.Y. home, worked as the media coordinator for ACT UP in the 1990s.
(AMY TOENSING FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
Testimonies from more than 100 activists are part of the ACT UP Oral History Project, and they will now be at the Harvard College Library through a $500,000 bequest. The ACT UP project’s arrival at the nation’s largest college library represents a move to diversify the institution’s holdings, as well as the start of a sweeping undertaking to store archives digitally and make them available online.
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