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Activist New York : a history of people, protest, and politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaffe, Steven H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Social movements > New York (State) > New York.
Table of 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.