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Alone Atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Hardcover)
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Alone Atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Hardcover)
Series: A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
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In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from
Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capitol and a career in
journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone
atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974
self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and
has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context.
Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of
journalism, women's history, and the civil rights movement and
creates a compelling portrait of a ground-breaking American.
Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she
struggled for a living, telling bluntly and simply what life was
like in a Border State in the first half of the twentieth century.
Later she takes readers to Washington, D.C., where we see her rise
from a typist during World War II to a reporter. Ultimately she
would become the first black female reporter accredited to the
White House; to travel with a U.S. president; credentialed by the
House and Senate Press Galleries; accredited to the Department of
State and the Supreme Court; voted into the White House Newswomen's
Association and the Women's National Press Club; and recognized as
a Washington sports reporter. A contemporary of Helen Thomas and a
forerunner of Ethel Payne, Dunnigan travelled with President Truman
on his coast-to-coast, whistle-stop tour; was the first reporter to
query President Eisenhower about civil rights; and provided
front-page coverage for more than one hundred black newspapers of
virtually every race issue before the Congress, the federal courts,
and the presidential administration. Here she provides an
uninhibited, unembellished, and unvarnished look at the terrain,
the players, and the politics in a rough-and-tumble national
capital struggling to make its way through a nascent, post-war
racial revolution.
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