Brave defender of freedom of the press. Lovejoy used his press
in Illinois to work to abolish slavery. Although he lost three
presses to mobs who opposed his views, Lovejoy continued “to
speak, to write and to publish whatever [he pleased] on any
subject.” He was killed by an angry mob as he tried to stop them
from setting fire to a warehouse where he was storing his newly
delivered fourth press. First American female foreign and war
correspondent. Described in her time as “the most remarkable and
. . . greatest woman” in America, Fuller opened many doors for
women journalists. When she joined the New York Tribune as
literary critic, she was the first woman on the paper’s staff.
Only two years later she fulfilled a lifelong dream of traveling
to Europe as a writer. While there she commented on social
change, interviewed political and artistic leaders, and covered
current events. Not all of what she witnessed survived. Both
Fuller and her papers were lost at sea in a shipwreck on her
return home. Pioneering ph