When the aids crisis emerged in the early 1980s

The Reagan Administration was slow to respond.

The Reagan Administration, and the country generally, gave a slow response when the AIDS crisis emerged in the United States in the 1980s. It was seen then as a plague that affected the homosexual community. Some on the religious right felt it was God's justice to punish homosexuals in that way.

A book you might check out on this subject is: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts of the San Francisco Chronicle, first published in 1987. A 20th anniversary edition of the book was republished in 2007.

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general allotment act (dawes act) february 8, 1887

amendment to the dawes act, february 28, 1891

commission to the five civilized tribes (dawes commission), march 3, 1893