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Feb. 22: Alice Allison Dunnigan - Dallas Weekly

Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first Black female correspondent to receive White House credentials. She was also the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. She also became the first black journalist to accompany a president while traveling, covering Harry S. Truman’s 1948 campaign trip.Growing up in Jim CrowAlice Dunnigan was born April 27, 1906, near Russellville, Kentucky, to Willie and Lena Pittm…