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The battle of Stuyvesant Town lasted from 1943 to 1952 and gave rise to the open housing movement in the United States,
Charles V. Bagli • Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made
Liberals had become far more fearful of being tagged as communistic themselves or, in the language of the age, “soft on communism.” According to this line of interpretation, liberalism lost its fighting elan and became much more modest—and much more like conservatism—in its aims. A few commentators hailed the scaling back of liberal expectations as
... See moreGary Gerstle • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Don’t offend the gays and don’t inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.
Randy Shilts • And the Band Played On
no one gay leader of the past has been widely chronicled as having had the most foresight, the most spirited plans, and the most critical triumphs, without which contemporary LGBT people couldn’t have won their own decisive civil rights victories. But if any one person deserves such credit, it is Frank Kameny.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Weil called for the abolition of all political parties. She argued that parties, regardless of their ideological coloration, share three basic traits. They are dedicated to nurturing collective passions, designed to exercise collective pressure upon the minds of their members, and devoted to their collective self-preservation.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
will reveal such reactions to cultural changes. The drastic transitions taking place in social structures and the shifting of long-held beliefs are destroying the defining lines and the very definitions of our lives. For the male in most societies and cultures, this redefinition is traumatic and has rendered many men without a clear definition of
... See moreMyles Munroe • Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men
this was a city in which the threat or the fear of brutalization had become so immediate that citizens were urged to take up their own defense, to form citizen patrols or militia, as in Beirut.