Research Catalog

Title

Activist New York : a history of people, protest, and politics / Steven H. Jaffe ; foreword by Eric Foner.

Author

Jaffe, Steven H.

Publication

New York : Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Museum of the City of New York, host institution.

Description

303 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subjects

• Social movements
• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Social movements > New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York
• Social conditions

Note

• "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."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) 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.

Call Number

Sc F 19-61

ISBN

• 9781479804603
• 1479804606

LCCN

2017051539

OCLC

1011555475

Author

Jaffe, Steven H., author.

Title

Activist New York : a history of people, protest, and politics / Steven H. Jaffe ; foreword by Eric Foner.

Publisher

New York : Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.

Added Author

Museum of the City of New York, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 19-61

JFF 18-1101