Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Published: Feb. 28, 2015, 5 p.m.

Carol McCabe Booker discusses pioneering journalist Alice Dunnigan, who shattered barriers in the late 1940s by becoming the first black female reporter credentialed to cover Congress and the White House. Booker edited and annotated a newly published edition of Dunnigan\u2019s autobiography, \u201cAlone Atop the Hill,\u201d providing historical context to the journalist\u2019s remarkable story.