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504 Now Occupation

Credit

AP Images

Location

San Francisco, CA

Medium

Photograph

Date

April 5, 1977

Black and white photograph of dozens of people, most of them in manual wheelchairs, sit in a starburst-like circle around a person using a motorized wheelchair at the center. Some of the protesters wear dark glasses, and at least two hold canes.

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A woman near the center of the group stands with hands lifted, possibly signing in American Sign Language. A cameraman stands at the back of the group, to our right. In the bottom right corner of the photo, a man leaning back in a wheelchair rests one foot up on the back wheel of the chair in front of him. The protesters’ attention is mostly focused on the middle of the room, which has curtain-lined windows on the far wall to the right and several boxes piled up against the wall across from us to the left. A few blankets are piled to one side, near the lower left corner of the photograph.