In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan\'s Lower East Side.
Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted, their parcels of Meat h.
What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long.
Convinced by the latest jump in the price of Kosher Meat That they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every Kosher butcher shop in New York\'s Jewish quarter.
In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan\'s Lower East Side