Book Description
Traditional walking tours of New York City lionize the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they've left behind. Rarely seen are the emblems of those buried in their wake -- the people who fought the establishment, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York City, political activist Bruce Kayton leads readers to monuments of these lesser-known heroes. Through Kayton's lens, the history of New York's neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements, and the 12 provocative, educational tours presented here provide for many an eye-opening afternoon. Readers visit Emma Goldman's home in the East Village, Langston Hughes's house in Harlem, the site of Mabel Dodge's salon, the apartment where John Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, the site of Margaret Sanger's first birth control clinic, Black Panther headquarters, and many more little-known points of interest. From Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, Kayton's tours provide a new perspective on the history of both New York City and American radicalism. This edition includes new stops, post-September 11 changes, and a new foreword by Pete Seeger.
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From Bowling Green, where a duplicitous Dutchman "bought" Manhattan Island from the Indians for $24 worth of seashells and hatchets, to Black Panther headquarters off 121st Street, where the mother of the late rap artist Tupac Shakur led community organizing efforts, this collection of nontraditional "walking tours" guides activists and history buffs through every neighborhood of the Big Apple. 30 photos .
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