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The first black newspaper in the United States, Freedom's Journal, started as a weekly abolitionist publication in 1827. It was the result of a meeting of black New York City leaders who wanted to unite free blacks against slavery. Editors Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm pushed education and stressed the importance of civil rights for free blacks. But the two disagreed on editorial policy, and the newspaper, which changed its name to The Rights of All, lasted just two years.
Other black newspapers followed in the years to come.
Willis Hodges started his own newspaper, the Ram's Horn, in New York in 1847 in response to...