Have you heard of Alice Allison Dunnigan? She was the first Black woman to cover the White House. Dunnigan was one of three African Americans and one of two women in the press corps that covered the campaign of President Harry S. Truman. During her years of covering the White House, she frequently asked questions regarding the burgeoning civil rights movement and the plight of black America. She was the first Black woman to be a member of the House and Senate Press Galleries. In 1953 Dunnigan was barred from covering a speech given by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a whites-only theater and was made to sit with the servants to cover Ohio’s Senator Robert A. Taft’s funeral. History shows that society will remind people of their “place” in the societal structure regardless of their accomplishments, education, wealth, etc. ESPECIALLY if they stand for something.
enemies too.