- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
. Trans Urban News Service
. Trans Urban News Service
- Chapter:
- (p.87) 8. Trans Urban News Service
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes events from 1977 to 1978. These include the opening of Trans Urban News Service’s office in summer 1977; Cooper and Utrice Leid’s grant application to fund TNS and hire staff; the strike held by New York City’s three daily newspapers, the Times, Daily News, and Post in August 1978; and black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s refusal to support black candidates for major political office.
Keywords: Andy Cooper, Trans New Service, New York City, newspapers, Shirley Chisolm
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates