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Philip A. Bell.

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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 awhile among blacks in the North and among sympathetic whites.  But the journal was to fail after only four years.

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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
JUNE 1976
CLEVELAND, OHIO

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