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Mayor Lindsay at the MCNY
Mayor John V. Lindsay (Photo: Courtesy of Library of Congress)
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For the inexperienced with any semblance of reasonable cultural awareness the previous decade of New York City could very well be the most tempestuous of any. A more experienced, older and wiser citizen may voice a different opinion, but for those of us who don’t remember the war in Vietnam, the only thing that we can gage the previous decade of violence and war against is what we read in history. And to properly read history we can’t read text alone. This must be the reason why The Museum of the City of New York has chosen to take an in depth multimedia look into the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay.
John V. Lindsay was Mayor of New York from 1966 to 1973. These were years that saw the hardhat riots, escalating protests against war in Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, a debilitating blizzard, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. To judge the gravity of our current period of terrorism, global warming, the waning of American capitalism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the subjugated leftist uprising against such atrocities, the Museum of the City of New York will be opening the Mayor Lindsay Exhibition on May 4, 2010.
Lindsay came of age politically during the initial era of media politics. MCNY has collected memorabilia in a range of mediums — from video footage, to campaign buttons, to magazine covers. The Museum is also requesting submissions of written memories from any New Yorkers who can personally recall the era of Lindsay. Nostalgia for some, but for those of us in the younger generations, this exhibition offers a rare three-dimensional view of a relevant piece of history.
For more information, please visit www.mcny.org.