Jacob Riis-Reporter and Reformer

Jacob Riis-Reporter and Reformer

By: Janet B. Pascal 

Early in 1888, in the middle of the night, a mysterious party of men crept quietly into a dark New York City tenement building. As the men walked softly up the stairs, the tenants still awake paid them no attention no one in the building had anything worth stealing, and unknown people often came and went in the tenements. They entered a filthy back room with only one window, opening on a narrow airshaft. Although the room seemed too tiny even for the family of four that officially lived there, fifteen immigrants were crowded into it, sleeping on every available surface. One of the men set down the heavy equipment he carried. Another held out what seemed to be a gun. There was a brilliant flash, and then, while the startled occupants of the room were still blinded by the light, the men ran out. [download]

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