- Title
- Cleve Jones
- Description
- Cleve Jones is a human rights activist who created the idea of a memorial quilt commemorating people who have died of AIDS. The first time the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed was October 11, 1987, when it was laid out in full on the National Mall. At that point it had 1,920 panels. At this display, Jones read out the names of his friends who had died, the start of a list of the names of all memorialized by the quilt. The AIDS quilt has returned to the Mall in 1996 and in 2012, although it is now too large to display all at once.
- Creator
- Cleve Jones
- Source
- NAMES Project Foundation
- Coverage
- 1980-1999
- birthday
- 10/11/1954
- Theme
- design & monuments
- museums
- politics & protest
