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On July 20, 1899, thousands of newsboys or “Newsies” went on strike showing the public that kids know when to take a stand for what’s right. Back then, the streets were filled with young boys (and some girls) who would buy bundles of papers and hawk them in the streets. In the late 1890s, the price for a bundle spiked to 60 cents because the public was avidly following the Spanish-American war. When the war ended in 1898, most newspapers lowered the price to 50 cents. Most except the owners of the two biggest newspapers in the country, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. They saw an opportunity for more profit so they left the price at 60 cents. Their Newsies not only had to pay more for the newspapers, but they also were stuck with all the papers they could not sell – most earned about 26 cents a day. The Newsies went on strike and took to the streets of Manhattan and shut down the Brooklyn Bridge. The strike extended to other cities on the east coast as Hearst and Pulitzer watched their sales and profits plummet. The two robber barons tried to physically force the Newsies back to work but were met with the ginger and fizz of the aggrieved kids who fought them off. Finally, after two weeks, Hearst and Pulitzer met with the leaders of the kid revolution and agreed to buy back the newspapers that were unsold. The Newsies went down in history as one of the first groups of workers who stood together and won against the most powerful men in America. And it all started with kids! #Newsies #PROUAW ... See MoreSee Less