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[[image - continuation of image from previous page: portrait of a Philip A. Bell and some newspaper headings]] [[image – portrait of Samuel Cornish]] [[image – portrait of John Russwurm]] [[caption]] Two early intellectuals, Samuel Cornish (left) and John Russwurm, founded Freedom's Journal (below) during the 1820s, the nation's first black newspaper. Cornish was a minister in the Presbyterian Church. His partner, Russwurm, a scholarly man, was the first black American to be graduated from college. Freedom's Journal was quite popular for a while among Blacks in the North and among sympathetic whites. But the journal was to fail after only four years. [[/caption]] [[image – facsimile page of Freedom's Journal from March 30, 1827 with the following stamp over it, inside double-line box are the words: NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION [[line]] JUNE 1977 ST. LOUIS, MO.]]]