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Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded by Rev. John Wilk and other free Black men in New York City, it was published weekly starting with the March 16, 1827, issue. [ 3 ]
Some notable black newspapers of the 19th century were Freedom's Journal (1827–1829), Philip Alexander Bell's Colored American (1837–1841), the North Star (1847–1860), the National Era, The Aliened American in Cleveland (1853–1855), Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851–1863), the Douglass Monthly (1859–1863), The People's Advocate ...
Freedom's Journal was the first newspaper in the United States to be owned, operated, published and edited by African Americans. [10] During his tenure as editor, Russwurm regularly included material about ancient and modern African history, providing readers on both sides of the Atlantic with a curated source of information about the continent.
English: This is the first issue of the Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper. Date: 16 March 1827, 15:48:00: Source: Freedom's Journal: Author:
The following year, he was a co-founder of Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. [4] He tutored promising students at the African Free School, including James McCune Smith, whom he aided to go to college and medical school in Scotland at the University of Glasgow. Smith returned to practice in New York as the first ...
In March 1827 he became one of two editors of Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. The other editor was John Russwurm. [2] It was intended to serve the 300,000 free blacks in the country and especially New York's community, as well as to offset the racist commentary of local papers in the city. [3]
The Rights of All (May 1829–1830) was an African American abolitionist newspaper, founded in New York City by Samuel Cornish, a black Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist.
Freedomways was the leading African-American theoretical, political and cultural journal of the 1960s–1980s. [1] It began publishing in 1961 and ceased in 1985. [2] The journal's founders were Louis Burnham, Edward Strong, W. E. B. Du Bois, and its first general editor was Shirley Graham Du Bois. It was later edited by Esther Cooper Jackson.