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Article: The history of the Amsterdam News
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Wilson, Clint C., II
New York Amsterdam News
12-13-2000
The history of the Amsterdam News
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 ...