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Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
Title:
Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
Uniform Title:
Black woman's experience
ISBN:
9780820347981
Physical Description:
xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Revision of the author's A Black woman's experience : from school house to White House (1974).
Summary:
"Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983) was the first African American woman to break the color and gender barriers of national journalism. During her time as a journalist, she reported for the Louisville Defender and Chicago Defender, and was a member of the Negro Associated Press. Dunnigan has been inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame for Journalism (1982) and for Human Rights (2010), and in 2013 was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. [Her] original autobiography was self-published and quite long, thus failing to gain the wide readership it might have; Booker aims to make Dunnigan's story available once more and ... readable for a general audience"--
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