Michael Demson,Summer McClinton
Masks of Anarchy, tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelleyâ€™s poem â€œThe Masque, of Anarchy,â€ from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a, catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later., Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing of the Peterloo Massacre, where British cavalry, charged peaceful political demonstrators near Manchester. His words would later inspire figures, as wide-ranging as Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhiâ€”and also Pauline Newman, the, woman the New York Times called the â€œNew Joan of Arcâ€ in 1907. Newman was a Jewish immigrantÂ who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and came to be a leading organizerâ€”and, the first female organizerâ€”of one of Americaâ€™s most powerful unions, the International Ladiesâ€™, Garment Workersâ€™ Union. As she marched with tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of New, Yorkers in the streets, Shelleyâ€™s poem never ceased to inspire her., â€œShake your chains to earth like dew,â€ it implores. â€œYe are manyâ€”they are few.â€
Poetry,Nonfiction,Sequential Art,Graphic Novels,Politics,Biography,United States,Literature,20th Century,History,Sequential Art,Comics
Masks Of Anarchy: The History Of A Radical Poem, From Percy Shelley To The Triangle Factory Fire