Where's The Beef? Jewish Women Led Kosher Riot of 1902

On Friday morning, May 16, 1902, the Lower East Side "looked as though it had been bombed," writes Scott Seligman.

One day earlier, Jewish women, outraged by rising beef prices, began picketing kosher butcher shops, stopping and sometimes assaulting "scabs" who dared to buy meat. By nightfall, butchers had been attacked and barely a kosher shop had escaped damage.