The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints Du Bois and Booker T

Du Bois and Booker T

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The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints Du Bois and Booker TBy Winston James John Brown Russwurm (1799 1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist. Russwurm's life is one of "firsts": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co founder of Freedom's Journal, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and