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In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case called Cooper vs. Power. In 1968, the courts agreed that black citizens were denied the right to elect an authentic representative of their community. The 12th Congressional District was redrawn. Shirley Chisholm, a member of Cooper's political club, ran for the new seat and made history as the first black woman elected to Congress.
Cooper became a journalist, a political columnist, then founder of Trans Urban News Service and the City Sun, a feisty Brooklyn-based weekly that published from 1984 to 1996. Whether the stories were about Mayor Koch or Rev. Al Sharpton, Howard Beach or Crown Heights, Tawana Brawley's dubious rape allegations, the Daily News Four trial, or Spike Lee's filmmaking career, Cooper's City Sun commanded attention and moved officials and readers to action.Cooper's leadership also gave Brooklyn--particularly predominantly black central Brooklyn--an identity. It is no accident that in the twenty-first century the borough crackles with energy. Cooper fought tirelessly for the community's vitality when it was virtually abandoned by the civic and business establishments in the mid-to-late twentieth century. In addition, scores of journalists trained by Cooper are keeping his spirit alive.
- Sales Rank: #2698398 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-06-22
- Released on: 2012-06-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"There’s an old saying that behind every great man, you’ll find a great woman. The reverse might be said in the case of Shirley Chisholm, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 12th District of New York and who was the first African-American woman to be elected to that body. Chisholm’s distinguished career and dedication to her community are well known, but how many today realize that it was a successful lawsuit brought by Brooklyn voting rights activist Andrew W. Cooper that ultimately opened the doors for Chisholm to make her move?
Wayne Dawkins devoted seven years to crafting a biography of Cooper, a former beer company employee whom he has called mentor. Dawkins documents the explosive times that helped forge a shift in the political landscape that reached well beyond the borders of Brooklyn, N.Y."-Dailypress.com
“Throughout the newspaper’s abbreviated run of 1984-1996, Cooper, named ‘Journalist of The Year’ by the NABJ in 1987, kept his finger on the pulse of the city, culturally and politically, and on the world stage. Some of the writing talents on its staff are notable for their contributions elsewhere: Utrice C. Leid, Armond White, Hugh Hamilton, Errol Louis, Peter Noel, Anthony Carter Paige, and Simone Joye…. As a project started in 2005 upon request by Cooper’s widow, Dawkins gives the reader an intimate, candid look at this remarkable man and his dedicated personal mission to speak truth at all costs. It’s a first-class effort, revelatory, courageous, and satisfying.” -- African American Literary Book Club
“In City Son author Wayne Dawkins showcases fresh voices within the black Brooklyn community who helped deliver the 1965 mayoral election to John V. Lindsay.”
―Milton Mollen, Lindsay associate, retired judge, and leader of the 1992-94 Mollen Commission investigation of police corruption
“With his new book, which revolves around the life and times of the late Andrew Cooper, the writer Wayne Dawkins keeps building an impressive résumé for using his talent for digging and research to shed light on what might be characterized as ‘hidden history.’ Mr. Dawkins, a professor in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, is himself a native of Brooklyn and that’s the piece of New York City that he draws on for this book. This is an important book for many reasons, but none greater than this: it is chock full of significant and compelling stories not told. This book brings some balance into the story of New York politics, and a part of what it reflects is the way that the contributions, ideas, and struggles of black New Yorkers are not just ignored but treated as though they never were. Some may ask, ‘Who is Andrew Cooper?’ This book by Professor Dawkins not only answers that in compelling detail, but it also raises this question, ‘Why is it that this chunk of New York is a story not told?’”
―Earl Caldwell, host of The Caldwell Chronicle on WBAI and former journalist for The New York Times, New York Daily News, and The New York Amsterdam News
From the Inside Flap
The story of an unforgettable African American journalist and his impact on New York City and America
About the Author
Wayne Dawkins is assistant professor of journalism at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he is the author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream and Black Journalists: The National Association of Black Journalists Story, as well as a contributor to Black Voices in Commentary: The Trotter Group and My First Year as a Journalist.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Heartwarming story of an independent newspaper (in Brooklyn, of all places)
By B. Wolinsky
I’d never heard of Andrew Cooper until I read this book. He was an executive at a beer company, started a newspaper in 1984, lost it in 1996. When I say “lost,” I mean they were locked out for unpaid rent and seized for unpaid tax. It wasn’t one of those takeover buyouts that wreck a big business, it just wasn’t making any profit. Ever the anti-establishment radical, he refused to go “big business” with new management, and that led to the end of his newspaper. But he did end up training a whole lot of black journalists.
Cooper’s first brush with politics was a lawsuit in ’65 to change the voting district lines, and give black voters in Brooklyn a greater majority. Before that, Bed-Stuy and other dominantly black areas were fringes of other districts, so the minority vote really was a “minority.” Once that changed, Shirley Chisolm came in, and you had a new era of black politicians all over America. But this effort (like many of his) wouldn’t come without criticism. If he ended one Gerrymandered district, was he simply replacing it with another? If he had the district lines to make blacks the majority, wasn’t that like segregation? After watching Chisolm ’72, Unbought and Unbossed, I realized why the radical era didn’t accomplish that much. The saying “power to the people” means nothing if the people don’t know what to do with the power. As far as “power” goes for Brooklyn, there were plenty of things to fix-abandoned buildings, teenage pregnancy, Vietnam vets coming home hooked on heroin-but no plan on what to fix first. Did these people think that a politician of their color could work miracles? Did they think Shirley Chisolm could wave her magic wand and make everything great? Sometimes I wonder if the 60’s were a decade of the dummy.
As far as business goes, The City Sun tried to save Brooklyn, and it sort of worked. Andrew Cooper set out to train young black journalists and send them off to integrate the other papers. Name one other editor who did that! As far as writing goes, Cooper had written for the Amsterdam News, and the new paper was competing both with the Amsterdam News (an African-American paper) and the Daily News and New York Post (papers with a working class readership of both races) but in the end it couldn’t compete with either. The Post and Daily News often changed editors to keep up to date, and Cooper was too stubborn to step down or sell. Don’t forget that those papers came close to bankruptcy a few times, and they had greater backing than The City Sun.
Politically, Cooper was, like Shirley Chisolm, “unbought and unbossed.” It was his paper, and he did it his way. He criticized politicians of his own color (he called David Dinkins a wimp) but made a fool of himself in others. He took the side of Al Sharpton in the Tawana Brawley case, then dug himself a hole when Tawana’s story unraveled. Perhaps his desperate run for cover on that case was a smart move; Sharpton’s lawyer was disbarred for his behavior in the Tawana Brawley case, and Cooper would probably have been sued for defamation of character if he’d stayed on it.
City Son is a well-written study on a great entrepreneur, a man who tried to fix the community by giving people jobs. In the end he just couldn’t win the business war on his terms, and maybe that’s how things happen naturally in this country? Mom & pop stores close all the time, and small newspaper can go the same way. Even The Village Voice isn’t fail-proof; they’ve the biggest base for sex ads after Hustler, and there’s no other way for a paper like that to stay free when nobody will pay for it. Cooper may have been radical when he started his own newspaper, and he was enough of a radical to have standards.
Today’s entrepreneurs in Brooklyn should read this book, because Andrew Cooper kept his business going for 12 years despite having none of the resources we have today.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Life of Making History
By Charles Isaacs
Quite an achievement by Wayne Dawkins. Probably the fullest accounting of Cooper v. Power in print, and a superb overview of The City Sun's career. The perspective Dawkins brings to the paper's body of work shows how impressive and truly unique it was.
I was amazed that the author were able to track down so many of the alumni. The bios testify to the quality of the people that were drawn to the paper.
While Andy Cooper was the visionary, it was Utrice Leid who made the wheels turn. She was absolutely brilliant. After she left, the paper was on life support in more ways than one. It was another sad chapter when she self-destructed as general manager of WBAI, making herself persona non grata on the left. Like most geniuses, and like Cooper, she was complicated as well as necessary. I think hers, though, is a tragic story.
One of Andy's qualities that Dawkins didn't really focus on was his stubborn-ness. This is something you really need when you're trying to make something out of nothing, like he did. In the end, though, I think that's what did the City Sun in. There were probably some workable partnerships that could have been structured, which could have made the paper a viable enterprise, but Cooper insisted on plowing ahead on his own. Without that stubbornness, though, the City Sun never would have gotten off the ground.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Must read on the nature of racism in the North
By Brian Purnell
Anyone interested in the ways histories of racial discrimination impacted cities outside the South must read this book. The story of Cooper v. Power illustrates in startling detail how one of the largest Black cities-within-a-city can be sliced and diced and gerrymandered into political non-existence. But it also depicts how the relentlessness of people who cared about their communities can change political anemia into power. As a community organizer, political activist, journalist, editor and publisher, Cooper helped give a public voice to over 350,000 people in north-central Brooklyn. His activism paved the way for Shirley Chisholm to become a Congresswoman. His newspaper provided Black New Yorkers with an alternative depiction of themselves and their community from what they saw in the mainstream white dailies. Wayne Dawkins's excellent biography reminds readers why Andrew W. Cooper is a name that we should recall every time we check a box in the booth on election day and why diversity in the newsroom is necessary in a multicultural democracy.
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