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Harvard library chronicles AIDS activism

Oral history project looks at activists’ darkest days

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 25, 2011

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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