Robert Sengstacke Abbott and the Black Press : Black Press

The Atlanta Daily World building in 1979. Photograph by James R. Lockhart. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.

The first Black newspaper in America was Freedom's Journal, a weekly published by Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm on March 16, 1827.

• Read issues of Freedom's Journal online, courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
• View PBS' Black Press: Warriors with Swords comprehensive timeline.