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Film, Video Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

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Title

  • Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives

Summary

  • Ahead of World AIDS Day 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Congressman John Lewis announced the future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and its archives at a special ceremony at the Library of Congress. The National AIDS Memorial will become the new caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and NAMES Project programs. As part of the transition, the NAMES Project and the National AIDS Memorial have agreed to jointly gift care and stewardship of the Quilt's archival collections to the prestigious American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, making this collection available to all through the world's largest public library.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-11-20.

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Carla Hayden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Barbara Lee.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-11-20.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696693

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-20, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696693/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2019) Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696693/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-20, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696693/>.