Weird History

Newsboys' Strike of 1899 | The Kids Who Beat Pulitzer and Hearst (2019x5)

: 10, 2019

Back before everyone got all their news for free on the internet, people bought newspapers. And those newspapers were typically sold by kids called newsboys or newsies. But at the end of the 19th century, two of the wealthiest media tycoons in the country tried to fatten their wallets by unfairly cutting into the newsies' already meager earnings, which led to the newsboys' strike of 1899. Here's the crazy story of what really happened.