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Activist New York : a history of people, protest, and politics
Author
Title
Activist New York : a history of people, protest, and politics / Steven H. Jaffe ; foreword by Eric Foner.
ISBN
9781479804603
1479804606
Publication
New York : Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Notes
"This volume is published as a companion to the exhibition Activist New York organized by and presented at the Museum of the City of New York in the Puffin Foundation Gallery beginning on May 3, 2012."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Let Us Stay: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Dutch New Netherland
Petitioning for Freedom in New Amsterdam
The Zenger Case: Fighting for Freedom of the Press
Educating the Enslaved in Colonial New York
Leather Aprons and Silk Stockings: The Coming of the American Revolution in New York
Quakers and Post-Revolutionary Reform
Seaport City: 1784-1865
Workingmen and Aristocrats: New York's Labor Movement Takes Shape
Beware of Foreign Influence: Nativists and Catholics
Practical Abolitionists: David Ruggles and the New York Committee of Vigilance
Urban Crusaders
Challenging Segregation in New York's Streets
From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: 1865-1918
Propaganda by Deed: New York City Anarchists
Battling the Slums: Housing Investigation and Reform
"Inside the Monster": Latino Activism in 19th-Century New York
Advocating for Migrants of Color
I Am A Working Girl: Upheaval in the Garment Trades
Houses of Welcome: The Settlement House Movement
Socialist Legacies: Housing Cooperatives and the Amalgamated Bank
New York is the Battleground: The Campaign for Woman Suffrage
Battles over Sexuality and Birth Control
Midcentury Metropolis: 1919-1960
The New Negro: Activist Harlem
To Drink or Not to Drink: Prohibition, Pro and Con
Art is a Weapon: Activist Theater in the Great Depression
Confronting Fascism
A Cold War: Activism and Anti-Communism in New York
Blacklisting the Weavers
Refusing to Hide: Anti-Civil Defense Protests
The Sixties in New York: 1960-1973
Gay is Good: The Rise of Gay Power
Resisting the Vietnam War
Women's Liberation in New York
Taking the Streets: The Young Lords and Latino Protest
From Civil Rights to Black Power
I Wor Kuen and Asian-American Activism
Urban Crisis and Revival: 1973-2017
Don't Move, Improve: The New Housing Activists
Silence = Death: AIDS Activism
We Are the 99 Percent: Occupying Wall Street
A New Century of Activism.
Subjects
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Museum of the City of New York, host institution.
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