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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Article continuation on JFK saluting Negro efforts for constitutional racial equality, comments by New York governor and Mayor Woodward on press role, NNPA theme on minority press, and historical background on Rev. Samuel Cornish and Russwurm founding Freedom's Journal in 1827, with Russwurm later in Liberia.
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efforts to realize the goals envisioned in our Constitution for men of all races. The New York governor saw these papers further as important tools in the struggle to establish equality of opportunity for all.
Mayor Woodward charged that "our free press is one of the bulwarks and foundations of our free society, but certainly we want to be careful to guard with eternal vigilance this privilege that is ours" and "not present in many places throughout the world."
NNPA's Press Week theme is "The Role of the American Minority Press in a World of Unrest."
The Rev. Samuel Cornish, a Presbyterian, was an associate with Russwurm in the Freedom's Journal venture, one year after Russwurm graduated from Bowdoin college in Maine, becoming in 1827, the first Negro college graduate in the United States. In 1829, Russwurm went to Liberia, West Africa, as minister of education and later governor of the colony of Cape Palmas or Maryland in the Republic of Liberia.
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JFK salutes efforts for racial equality in Constitution. New York governor views papers as tools for equality. Mayor Woodward emphasizes guarding free press. NNPA Press Week theme: Role of American Minority Press in World of Unrest. Rev. Samuel Cornish associated with Russwurm in Freedom's Journal, first Negro newspaper in 1827 after Russwurm's graduation from Bowdoin College. Russwurm went to Liberia in 1829 as minister of education and later governor of Cape Palmas.