Reading from Left to Left: Exhibition Tour (NYU)
Join the BSA Events Planning Sub-Committee and Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, NYU Special Collections, for a curator-led tour of Reading from Left to Left: Radical Bookstores in NYC, 1930-2000s.
NYU Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South, Floor 2
New York, NY 10012
“Jefferson School Bookshop,” Daily Worker (n.d.). The Daily Worker and Daily World Cartoon Collection, New York University Special Collections.
Radical bookstores are counterspaces and convergence spaces that inform social movement across the city. More than just sites of political participation and exchange, radical bookstores in New York City serve as critical infrastructure within New York City’s activist landscape. Come learn about the history of radical bookstores in New York City—from Communist bookstores, to anarchist bookstores, Black bookstores, and more.