Dunnigan, Alice Allison, 1906-1983

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, for Dunnigan, A. Papers, 1947-1977(Alice A. Dunnigan; d. 1983; journalist, educator, and politician, of Kentucky and Washington, D.C.)

found: African American Registry WWW site, viewed on 10-17-2006(Alice Dunnigan; b. 1906 near Russelville, Ky.; first black woman journalist accredited to the White House and Congress; in 1948, first black woman to cover a Presidential campaign; first black woman elected to the Woman's National Press Club; died in 1983)

found: KY Historical Society WWW site, viewed 10-17-2006(Alice Allison Dunnigan, 1906-1983; journalist and civil rights leader)

found: African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Dunnigan, Alice Allison; print journalist, columnist, autobiographer / memoirist; born 27 April 1906 in Russellville, Kentucky, United States; graduated from the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute (later Kentucky State University) and became a teacher at a rural school; took a job with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) cleaning public buildings; moved to Louisville (1935) to become society editor for the Louisville Leader; enrolled at Tennessee A & I State College (1936); enrolled in night school courses in economics and statistics at Howard University and gained a professional-level position at the Office of Price Administration; did freelance reporting for the Associated Negro Press (ANP); became the chief of ANP's Washington bureau (1 January 1947) and its sole full-time staff member; resigned from the ANP (1961) to join the staff of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; died 06 May 1983 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)