A major Black weekly newspaper, the Amsterdam News, said that the election of Abraham Became as mayor of N.Y. could pave the way for a Black mayor the next time. “In some circles,” Simon Anekwe wrote, “the Became victory, heavily backed by Blacks, was seen as ultimately paving the way for a Black man to become mayor of New York.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
