CULTURETECHLENSAlice Dunnigan
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Dunnigan became head of the Associated Negro Press Washington Bureau on January 1, 1947, serving for 14 years and supplying stories to more than 100 African American newspapers. Dunnigan was the first African American woman to receive White House press credentials (1948) and the first Black female member of the Senate and House press galleries (1947).
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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-188; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.
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- https://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/uk-celebrates-civil-rights-journalism-pioneer-alice-allison-dunnigan
- https://nnpa.org/alice-allison-dunnigan-the-pioneering-white-house-correspondent/
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