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March 02, 2011
How the other half lived
Jacob Riis was a police reporter for the New York Tribune.
All too familiar himself with life on the NYC’s mean streets, he made it his personal mission to use his position to become the voice for the city’s suffering poor– especially the children. Jacob Riis strongly believed that the “poor were the victims, rather than the makers, of their fate.”
More Victorian New York at the link.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 2, 2011 05:58 AM