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Freedom Journal Celebrates 177th Year Anniversary

Freedom Journal Celebrates 177th Year Anniversary










(PRWEB) March 14, 2004

The cost of freedom is truly a priceless gift worthy of celebration at any time. What makes this celebration a special one? The Freedom Journal is celebrating it’s 177th Year Anniversary as America’s Oldest African American Publication in the USA. As an added bonus, Dr. Alphonso Hamilton, Publisher received on behalf of Freedom Journal the distinguished honor of having the Councilman Bernard Parks along with the entire Los Angeles City Council proclaim March 12-14 as Freedom Journal Weekend in the City of Los Angeles.

To understand the rich legacy behind this publication, we must look at the life of its visionary and founder, John Brown Russwurm, editor, politician, and one ofthe nation’s first black college graduates. Born to a slave mother and a white American merchant father, Russwurm was educated in Quebec and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1826. Upon graduation, he went to New York, where he found that media that was pro slavery and critical of free blacks in the United States. Samuel Cornish who edited and published the publication was born of free parents about 1795, in Delaware and raised in the relatively free environments of Philadelphia and New York City. Although he was an ordained minister and organized the first Black Presbyterian Church in the United States, he is best remembered as a journalist.

Russwurm and Presbyterian minister Samuel Cornish launched the Freedom Journal on March 16, 1827. The headline read, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” The basic theme of the newspaper was to vocalize demands to end slavery in the South and gain equal rights for blacks in the North and attacked slavery and demanded full and equal citizenship for blacks.

Dr. Alphonso Hamilton, Publisher of Freedom Journal continues to preserve the richness of the African American heritage envisioned by these great men. Read by thousands, Dr. Hamilton states that he firmly believes that before there was America there was Black History. It would take a trillion issues of Freedom Journal to write about the courageous exploits of our many heroes and sheroes. So as the legacy of the Freedom Journal continues we look forward to next 177 years with continue hope for a better tomorrow.


















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The Bill of Rights Institute Celebrates Constitution Day, September 17, 2010 with Free Resources for Teachers



Arlington, VA (Vocus) September 1, 2010

On September 17, 2010, the Bill of Rights Institute will celebrate Constitution Day with new educational materials for teachers across the country.

The Bill of Rights Institute’s newest resource, Life Without the Bill of Rights? is a click-and-explore activity that puts your students in control asking them to consider how life would change without some of our most cherished freedoms. Life Without the Bill of Rights? invites your students to understand the significance of their constitutionally-protected rights including freedom of religion, speech, and press; freedom from unreasonable search and seizure; and the rights of private property.

Other free resources include an Interactive Module that allows students to “travel through time” to converse with the Founders and report on the Constitutional Convention. Students will also match quotes to Founders who said them, and complete a constitutional crossword puzzle.

Available for download is a 12-page Celebrate the Constitution: Why Do We Have a Constitution? activity booklet. The free booklet features interactive games and content that informs readers about constitutional principles such as freedom of speech, federalism, how a bill becomes a law, and the history of the Constitution and Constitutional Convention.

“We are truly grateful to our supporters and the teachers we have worked with for helping us reconnect young Americans to our Founding principles,” said Dr. Jason Ross, Bill of Rights Institute Vice President of Education Programs.

All materials and more FREE resources can be found on our Constitution Day Resource Page.

Use #ConDay to follow the conversation about Constitution Day on Twitter.

The Bill of Rights Institute, founded in 1999, is a nonprofit educational organization. The mission of the Bill of Rights Institute is to educate young people about the words and ideas of America’s Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and shape a free society.

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