WANTED: A Moral Force For Good
Homeless children of the Lower East Side, New York, photographed by Jacob Riis, 1880s.
By the late nineteenth century, wealth inequality and social injustice borne from ethnic discrimination had torn New York City in two; and the power-brokers running the corrupt city government prospered from the resulting chaos.
On one side of the divide, aristocrats,…
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