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Article: Amsterdam News, 94 years and still going strong
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- December 10, 2003
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Wilson, Clint C.
New York Amsterdam News
12-10-2003
Today, in an era of on-line news services, 24-hour all-news radio, cable TV
stations and other technological marvels that deliver information at the
touch of a button, it's difficult to imagine a time when New York's Black
citizens had only a community weekly newspaper to learn of events that
addressed their information needs, social concerns and aspirations.
On Dec. 4, 1909, when the New York Amsterdam News was born, the despicable
U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) legalizing racial
segregation had been in effect for only 13 years. Not only did that case
have a negative impact on Black Americans in their pursuit of civil rights
and ...