Tag: Forward Building

Emma Goldman, a prominent Jewish anarchist, was arrested at the Forward Building in 1916 for speaking about birth control, a subject deemed illegal under the Comstock Act of 1873.
The article discusses the history and current state of the Forward building, a landmark building on the Lower East Side of New York City.
In 1947, the Forward played a significant role in promoting and executing a mass vaccination campaign against smallpox in New York City.