Jaffe, Steven H.

Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics - 1 online resource. - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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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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