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Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906–1983)〔Carraco, p. 53.〕 was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist and author.〔James, p. 183.〕 She was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials,〔(Women in Journalism ) (accessed April 28, 2009)〕 and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. She has written an autobiography entitled ''Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman's Experience''.〔 She also has a Kentucky State Historical Commission marker dedicated to her.〔(Waymarking ) (accessed April 28, 2009)〕 Alice chronicled the decline of Jim Crow during the 1940s and 1950s, which influenced her to become a civil rights activist.〔 She was inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame in 1982.〔Kleber, page 274〕 During her time as a reporter, she became the first black journalist to accompany a president while traveling, covering Harry S. Truman's 1948 campaign trip.〔 ==Biography== Alice was born April 27, 1906 near Russellville, Kentucky to Willie and Lena Pittman Allison.〔 Her father was a sharecropper and her mother took in laundry for a living.〔Streitmatter, page 108〕 At age 13, she began writing for the ''Owensboro Enterprise''.〔 Her dream was to experience the world through the life of a newspaper reporter.〔 After completing a teaching course at Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute,〔Carraco, page 54〕 she taught Kentucky History in the Todd County School System, which was segregated at the time.〔 She noticed that her class was not aware of the African American contributions to the Commonwealth, she started to prepare Kentucky Fact Sheets as supplements to required text.〔 They were collected and formed into a manuscript in 1939, but finally published in 1982 with the title ''The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians: Their Heritage and Tradition''.〔 From 1947 to 1961, she served as chief of the Washington bureau of the Associated Negro Press. In 1947 she was a member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries, and in 1948 she was made a White House correspondent. In 1961 she was named education consultant to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. From 1967 to 1970 she was as an associate editor with the President's Commission on Youth Opportunity.〔(MARBL bio ) (accessed April 28, 2009)〕 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Allison Dunnigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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