-Journalist & Author-
Alice Dunnigan
Alice Dunnigan
Born April 27, 1906 near Russellville, Kentucky. Graduated from Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institue, which is now known as Kentucky State University. at the age of 14 Dunnigan started writing for Owensboro Enterprise newspaper. The first half of her life Dunnigan, taught at public schools in Kentucky. Once the Louisville, school were she taught at closed, she continued her career as a reporter in Washington, D.C. Dunnigan was the first African American WOmen correspondent to recieve WHite House Credentials, and the First African American member of the Women's National Press Club. She was also a reporter for the Associated Negro Press.
Meet the first two African American women in the White House press corps - Columbia Journalism Review
Credited with having paved the way for every black woman who has since covered the White House, Dunnigan did more to keep black Americans informed about the struggle for civil rights than any other journalist of her era, the decade before the movement exploded on the front pages of the mainstream press.
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In addition to being a reporter, Alice Dunnigan was also a Civil Rights Activist, in her hometown she pushed for women of the African American race to be hired by WPA . she served as the educational consultant on president Jhonson's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Dunnigan was also the author of The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians and four other books. for mor informations click here
