Saturday, May 30, 2026

250 to 250: 02. AIDS Memorial Quilt, Narrated by Cleve Jones

 
 
Heather Cox Richardson and 250 to 250: AIDS Memorial Quilt, Narrated by Cleve Jones

Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987.

In 1981, people learned about a new disease called HIV/AIDS.
  • By 1985, many people were sick or had died from the disease.
  • People were afraid of HIV/AIDS.
  • Many people treated those with HIV/AIDS unfairly.
  • The government did not act quickly to help.
Friends and families created the AIDS Quilt to remember people who died.
HIV/AIDS is still not completely gone.

POP Interview and Quiz: 

N-400 Part 9:7.g. Have you ever caused harm or suffering to any person because of their race, religion, national origin, membership in a particular group, or political opinion?

USCIS 100:55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?

USCIS 128:124.   The Nation’s first motto was “E Pluribus Unum.” What does that mean?


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