Activist New York : : A History of People, Protest, and Politics /

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Activist New York : : A History of People, Protest, and Politics / / Steven H. Jaffe and Eric Foner.

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Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City’s long history of social activism from the 1650’s to the 2010’s. Bringing these passionate histories alive, Activist New York is a visual exploration...

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VerfasserIn:
Jaffe, Steven H.,
Foner, Eric, 1943-
TeilnehmendeR:
Foner, Eric, 1943-
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : NYU Press,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • ACTIVIST NEW YORK A History of People, Protest, and Politics
  • Copyright
  • Title
  • Director's Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Colonial and Revolutionary New York: 1624-1783
  • Chapter One Let Us Stay: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Dutch New Netherland
  • Petitioning for Freedom in New Amsterdam
  • Chapter Two The Zenger Case: Fighting for Freedom of the Press
  • Educating the Enslaved in Colonial New York
  • Chapter Three Leather Aprons & Silk Stockings: The Coming of the American Revolution in New York
  • Quakers and Post-Revolutionary Reform
  • Seaport City: 1783-1865
  • Chapter Four Workingmen & Aristocrats: New York's Labor Movement Takes Shape
  • "Beware of Foreign Influence": Nativists & Catholics
  • Chapter Five Practical Abolitionists: David Ruggles and the New York Committee of Vigilance
  • Challenging Segregation in New York's Streets
  • Urban Crusaders
  • Gilded Age to Progressive Era: 1865-1918
  • Chapter Six "Propaganda by Deed": New York City Anarchists
  • Battling the Slums: Housing Investigation and Reform
  • Chapter Seven "Inside the Monster": Latino Activism in 19th-Century New York
  • Advocating for Migrants of Color
  • Chapter Eight "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
  • Chapter Nine "New York is the Battleground": The Campaign for Woman Suffrage
  • Battles over Sexuality and Birth Control
  • Midcentury Metropolis: 1918-1960
  • Chapter Ten "The New Negro": Activist Harlem
  • To Drink or Not to Drink: Prohibition, Pro and Con
  • Defending Civil Liberties: The ACLU
  • Chapter Eleven "Art is a Weapon": Activist Theater in the Great Depression
  • Confronting Fascism
  • Chapter Twelve 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
  • Chapter Thirteen "Gay is Good": The Rise of Gay Power
  • Resisting the Vietnam War
  • Women's Liberation in New York
  • Chapter Fourteen "Basta Ya!": The Young Lords and Puerto Rican Activism
  • From Civil Rights to Black Power
  • Asian American Activism
  • Urban Crisis and Revival: 1973-2011
  • Chapter Fifteen "Don't Move! Improve!": The New Housing Activists
  • "Silence = Death": AIDS Activism
  • Chapter Sixteen "We Are the 99 Percent!": Occupying Wall Street
  • A New Era of Activism
  • Endnotes
  • For Further Reading
  • Index
  • Image Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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