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Article: Amsterdam News celebrates 95 years
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- December 15, 2004
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Wilson, Clint C., III
New York Amsterdam News
12-15-2004
The year 1909 was an eventful one for African Americans:
W.E.B. DuBois and associates organized the NAACP; Matthew Henson, a Black
man, accompanied explorer Robert Peary on the first successful expedition
to the North Pole; and a relatively unknown South Carolina native founded
the New York Amsterdam News.
James Henry Anderson was born shortly after the Civil War but ran away from
his farm home in South Carolina at age 12. After working at a variety of
jobs including bellhopping and a stint in the Navy, Anderson settled in New
York and decided to try his hand at publishing a newspaper for the Black
constituency.
At the time only about 50 Black ...