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Article: Nine decades of the Amsterdam News
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- December 13, 2000
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Boyd, Herb
New York Amsterdam News
12-13-2000
Nine decades of the Amsterdam News
When the first issue of The New York Amsterdam News hit the street on Dec.
4, 1909, Tennessee State University enrolled its first group of students,
the NAACP was 11 months old and Matthew Henson accompanied Admiral Peary
when he reached the North Pole in April. Right from the start, the weekly
paper's mission of providing coverage where other publications were lacking
had an issue to deal with: 69 Blacks were lynched in 1909.
The paper wasted no time stepping into the fray and bolstering the Black
press, which by this time had been around some 82 years, beginning with
Freedom's Journal on March 16, 1827. Like the ...