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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Regency Hyatt Hotel Atlanta, Georgia June 1971 10 Blacks Cited for Efforts on Racial Unity Ten black Americans were cited for bettering race relations at an awards dinner here last night at the National Newspaper Publishers association. The only Chicagoan to receive one of the association's John B. Russwurm awards was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, national chairman of Operation Breadbasket. The association, composed of black newspaper publishers, is holding its 30th annual convention in the Ambassador West hotel. Others Are Listed Other recipients of the awards were Brig. Gen. Daniel Chappie Ames Jr., deputy assistant secretary of defense; William Greaves of New York City, producer of National Educational Television's "Black Journal"; Dr. Benjamin Mays, former president of Morehouse college, Atlanta; Arthur Fletcher, assistant secretary of labor; Richard Austin, auditor of Wayne county, Michigan; Dr. Angie Brooks, president of the United Nations; actor Al Freeman Jr.; the Rev. Melvin Floyd, Philadelphia's policeman-minister; and Maynard C. Jackson, vice mayor of Atlanta. Russwurm Founded Newspaper The awards, given annually, are named for John B. Russwurm, founder of the first Negro newspaper, Freedom's Journal, in New York City in 1827. John H. Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Daily Defender, is president of the association. Ten African envoys to the United States will be honored by the association at a dinner-dance this evening in the Ambassador West. [[image - photo of African-American woman]]