... 29, 1817 in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Nearly ten years later, on March 30, 1827, the first Black-owned newspaper, Freedom's Journal, was established in New York City. Samuel E. Cornish, a Presbyterian preacher, and John B. Russwurm, a college graduate and abolitionist, owned the newspaper. The paper was designed to counteract anti-black sentiment, which was espoused by another local paper, The New York Enquirer ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School