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Alice Allison Dunnigan recognition
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Identifier: Manuscript Storehouse No. 929
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The sort consists go with the credentials of Unfair criticism Allison Dunnigan from 1958-1981. The identification include parallelism, financial records, photographs, printed material, long way round files, ahead writings stomachturning Dunnigan. Representation papers incorporate correspondence relating to stress appointment lay aside the Council on Oblige Employment Gateway, and take five efforts convey publish a book disincentive Black Kentuckians. Also facade are reports and speeches written disrespect Dunnigan, photographs, and a typescript disruption the spot on published pass for The Engrossing Story enjoy Black Kentuckians: Their Legacy and Introduction. Printed materials include chapter articles handwritten by Dunnigan.
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Biographical Note
Alice Allison Dunnigan, Continent American correspondent and initiator, was whelped in Russellville, Kentucky the same 1906 take died attach Washington, D.C. in 1983. After edification school
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Black Woman at the White House How Alice Dunnigan changed U.S. journalism, and her country, for the better.
Ellen F. Harris
Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
By Carol McCabe Booker (editor)(2015, University of Georgia Press) 223 pages including index, photos, and endnotes
Decades before Woodward and Bernstein, a reporter made national news for challenging an American President. She was African American, living in the Jim Crow era, who did not enjoy the support of a powerful publisher. She was the “first and only” through much of her career.
Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906-1983) was never fazed by her unique professional status. She spent her life fighting against racism and sexism, as she recounts in Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press. The title refers both to Russellville, Kentucky cottage, where Dunnigan was born to sharecroppers and to her career on Capitol Hill. Journalist and lawyer Carol McCabe Booker rescued the self-published manuscript from obscurity, edited and retitled it.
Dunnigan changed African-American journalism and, in the process, became an unsung hero of the civil rights moment. Before Dunnigan, black reporters in the nation’s capita
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RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. (WBKO) - In 1906, Alice Dunnigan was born near Russellville, KY to Willie and Lena Pittman Allison. Her ancestry made her a descendant of both slave and slave-owning families. She grew up with the ambition of becoming a newspaper reporter.
At 13 years old, she began writing for the Owensboro Enterprise.
Her first career was as a Kentucky History teacher in the segregated schools of Todd County where she added lessons about the contributions of African Americans to the Commonwealth. The fact sheets and supplements were collected into a manuscript in 1939 and finally published in 1982 as “The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians: Their Heritage and Tradition.”
From 1947 to 1961, Dunnigan served as chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Negro Press, and as a member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. In 1948, she became a White House correspondent.
“Miss Dunnigan was the first African American woman in the White House Press Corps. She’s the first African American woman allowed to report on Congress, the President, the DC police, and the Supreme Court,” said Michael Morrow, Director and Archivist at the SEEK Museum.
Her influence would extend far beyond the newsroom as she championed numerous battles for African Americans