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

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

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Main Author: Jaffe, Steven H.
Other Authors: Foner, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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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