Prince Georges Afro-American Newspaper Civil Rights Special Edition 8 24 2013

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Volume 122 No. 3

AUGUST 24, 2013 - AUGUST 30, 2013

121 Years The AFRO Celebrates

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Your History • Your Community • Your News

In August 2013, the AFRO is celebrating its 121st year of publishing news about the AfricanAmerican community. During the past 121 years, this newspaper has served in many respects like a diary of the AfricanAmerican community; mirroring the ups and downs the community has endured as its expanding and ever changing role in the American culture has evolved with the passing of each decade in the 20th century. This year we celebrate the AFRO’s anniversary by focusing on the issue

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of how we’ve had to fight to achieve the civil rights which have been continuously denied purely due to the color of our community’s complexion. The pursuit of our civil rights has been a permanent fixture in every edition of the AFRO during the 121 years it has been publishing. This special 121st Anniversary edition is divided into six sections with the first two sections containing the news of the past week. The next four sections contain the AFRO’s reporting of the significant events and personalities that significantly defined the community’s quest for civil rights equality from 1900 up to the historical 1963 March on Washington. The AFRO coverage in these sections dramatizes how the voting rights, equal opportunity and freedom from racial abuses enjoyed by White American citizens, have rarely been extended to the African-American community without tremendous sacrifices.

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In the third section, AFRO articles describe race riots, lynchings, political maneuverings to eliminate the right to vote, and other abuses that appeared to define the way of life for most Blacks in this part of the 20th century. A positive outcome of these depressing first decades was the community’s conception Continued on A2

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