Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Thu, 01/07/2016 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
Interview with Carol McCabe Booker, editor of Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press.
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. In 1974 Dunnigan self-published A Black Woman’s Experience: From Schoolhouse to White House. Her dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women’s history, and the civil rights movement, and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American.
Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context.
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. In 1974 Dunnigan self-published A Black Woman’s Experience: From Schoolhouse to White House. Her dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women’s history, and the civil rights movement, and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American.
Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context.