Dunnigan, Alice Allison, 1906-1983
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Teacher, journalist.
Alice Allison Dunnigan, journalist and author, was born in Russellville, Kentucky in 1906 and died in Washington, D.C., in 1983. After teaching school and working as a writer for several Kentucky newspapers, Dunnigan moved to Washington, DC, where, from 1947 to 1961, she served as chief of the Washington bureau of the Associated Negro Press. Dunnigan was named education consultant to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in 1961 and was an associate editor with the President's Commission on Youth Opportunity from 1967 to 1970. Dunnigan was the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries (1947), and the first black female White House correspondent in 1948. She was also the first black elected to the Women's National Press Club. In 1974 she published her autobiography A BLACK WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE: FROM SCHOOLHOUSE TO WHITE HOUSE and in 1982 THE FASCINATING STORY OF BLACK KENTUCKIANS: THEIR HERITAGE AND TRADITION was published.
Journalist, educator, and politician, of Kentucky and Washington, D.C.; d. 1983.
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