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[[image - logo of NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION]] NATIONAL NEGRO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 28th ANNUAL CONVENTION JUNE 19-23, 1968 SUMMIT HOTEL NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM Wednesday, June 19, 1968 Registration 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Presidents Reception 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Host Philip Morris Screening and Cocktails 10 p.m. Host - Columbia Pictures Incorporated Thursday, June 20, 1968 Continental Breakfast 8 a.m. Host - Proctor Silas Business Sessions 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Luncheon 12 Noon Host - Continental Bakeries Speakers The Honorable John [[?V/L]] Lindsay - Mayor of the City of New York The Honorable Percy E. Sutton - President, Borough of Manhattan Business Sessions 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. (Advertising) Cocktails 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Host - Seagram Distillers Dinner 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Host - Gulf Oil Music by Walt Harper Dance and Cocktails 10 p.m. - 12 p.m. Host - Royal Crown Cola Friday, June 21, 1968 Continental Breakfast 8 a.m. Host - Proctor Silas Business Sessions 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Lunch Host - Pepsi Cola Business Sessions 2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Advertising) Cocktails 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Host - Coca Cola Awards Banquet Host - Coca Cola Saturday, June 22, 1968 Breakfast Host - Humble Oil NNPA BOARD MEETING 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Luncheon Noon Host - Anhauser Busch Cookout 3 p.m. Host - Schenley Industries Incorporated Theatre Party "Hello Dolly" Carnation Co. and the NNPA Party at Midnight Host - Queens Voice [[image - black & white photograph of a man]] [[caption]] JOHN B. RUSSWURM First American Negro Editor First Negro American College Graduate [[/caption]] By 1860 the total population of the United States was 31,500,000. Of this number, slightly more than 14 per cent, or about 4,500,000, were Negroes including nearly half-a-million free persons of color. A significant number of the Negroes could read as well as speak intelligently. These were the people for whom the pioneer Negro journalists wrote. Generally, their literature criticized the pro-slavery groups as well as the American Colonization Society and vigorously denounced the proponents of slavery. Of this group of writers, John B. Russwurm was one of the most prominent. Russwurm was educated in Canada and at Bowdoin College, where, in 1826, he became the United States' first Negro college graduate. In March, 1827, he established this country's first Negro newspaper, "Freedom's Journal", which he renamed "Rights Of All" in March, 1828. SAMUEL CORNISH On founding "Freedom's Journal", Cornish write: "As education is what renders civilized man superior to the savage ... we deem it expedient to establish a paper and bring into operation all the means with which our benevolent Creator has endowed us, for the moral, religious, civil and literary improvement of our injured race ... In our discussion of political subjects we shall ever regard the Constitution of the United States as our political star." FREDERICK DOUGLASS In 1847, in Rochester, Douglass founded the "North Star". Its slogan was "Right is of no Sex, Truth is of no color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren." "It is neither a reflection on the fidelity, nor a disparagement of the ability of our friends and fellow-laborers, to assert what 'common sense' affirms and only folly denies, that the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand redress — that the man STRUCK is the man to CRY OUT — and that he who has endured the cruel pangs of Slavery is the man to advocate Liberty. It is evident that we must be our own representatives and advocates, not exclusively, but peculiarly — not distinct from, but in connection with our white friends."
