The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints 8-1/2 x 6-1/2”

8-1/2 x 6-1/2”

California

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Handsome art volume of sculpture by Robert L

Bowdoin mascot imprint on one side and Nike Swoosh™ imprint on other

The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints 8-1/2 x 6-1/2”By 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