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Anne Collage

Anne Collage

A six-photo color collage showing disability activist Anne Emerman protesting in front of an MTA bus in 1981 and later boarding an accessible bus lift.

Date: 1981

Image Description: A color collage of six photographs arranged in two vertical columns documenting disability activist Anne Emerman’s 1981 bus protest and subsequent use of wheelchair-accessible buses. In the left column, three photos show Emerman during her protest: at top, a New York City police officer leans over her as she reaches out to hold onto the front of a bus while another officer stands behind; in the middle, she sits in her wheelchair in front of MTA bus 2244 holding its windshield wiper to block it from moving; at bottom, she speaks into a yellow WBAI microphone surrounded by onlookers. In the right column, three photos show a smiling Emerman in a dark coat using a wheelchair lift at the doorway of a blue-and-white accessible bus featuring an advertisement reading “MILK. THE DRINK IN THE CITY.”

Source: Anne Emerman Collection

A six-photo color collage showing disability activist Anne Emerman protesting in front of an MTA bus in 1981 and later boarding an accessible bus lift.