Newsboys' Strike: 120th Anniversary - Day 9
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| Newsboy asleep on stairs with papers. Jersey City, New Jersey, 1912 Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005 The Met wikimediacommons |
So, I missed it, and it was a huge bummer. I didn't know at the time that I would be going to New York the following year, just missing the 100th anniversary. But, what I did get to experience was something much deeper than a one-time party - I got to know the real newsies through newspaper articles, I met one of the cast from Newsies (Dee Caspary who played Snitch), and I had ample opportunities wandering the same streets they did, visiting the statue of Horace Greeley that's a big part of a few dance numbers in the movie like "Seize the Day" and my favorite "And The World Will Know", and visiting the amazing Lower East Side Tenement Museum to get a feel for how some of them really lived. It was an incredible time in my life, and I am so grateful for that experience.
That's one reason why celebrating the 120th anniversary of this strike was so important to myself. It's kind of making it up to my younger self and honoring all the hard work I put in for something I was so passionate about.
For the articles from Saturday, 29 July 1899, the strike is really winding down now. There's new leadership (see ya, Kid Blink!), and there are hints that the newsboys are weakening, or maybe the papers just aren't interested in reporting about it anymore. What do you think?
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NEW YORK HERALD
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| New York Daily Herald 29 July 1899 part 1 |
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| New York Daily Herald 29 July 1899 part 2 |
NEW YORK SUN
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| New York Sun 29 July 1899 |
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
