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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaffe, Steven H., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Museum of the City of New York, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Social conditions.

New York (State)--New York.

Social movements--New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781479804603

1479804606

OCLC:

1011555475

Publisher Number:

40028301100