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Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side

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This number of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one in all The united states’s strangest and such a lot beloved neighborhoods. Current and previous residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human landscape of one in all The united states’s such a lot storied bohemias. In over fifty chapters, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Christopher Mele, John Macmillan, Jim Feast, Al Orensanz, Allan Antliff, Lynn Stewart, Thomas McEvilly, Frank Morales, and lots of others cover topics starting from the early settlement houses and sweatshops to squatters, rioters, artists, activists and organizers. Resistance is jam-packed with fascinating first-person accounts of the battles, triumphs, screw ups, and lives of a neighborhood that may be unexpectedly being lost to gentrification.

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