The Leonard Lopate Show: Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Champion of New York’s Poor

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Champion of New York’s Poor

Jacob Riis is best known for his muckraking reportage and photographs of how New York’s tenement poor lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom set out to rescue Riis from his detractors and admirers alike in Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer, His Journalism, and His Photographs.

Event: Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Avenue (at 103rd Street)
For details, call (212) 534-1672 or visit the MCNY website.

SLIDESHOW: Jacob Riis

Guests:

Daniel Czitrom and Bonnie Yochelson

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