Four Centuries of Citizen Struggle: How Grassroots Movements Have Grown in New York

Ever since 17th-century settlers in the Dutch colony of New Netherland went over the head of Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant to demand religious freedom for Quakers, New Yorkers have engaged in grassroots movements that have changed the course of history in the city. Join historians Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University, and Johanna Fernandez, Baruch College of the City University of New York, and others to explore the events and cultural conditions that have made our city fertile ground for activism-- left, right, and center.