Christina Maxouris, CNN “Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Featured Image (CNN)Black history is American history. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s easy to say. But while most grade school teachers agree […]
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Little Known Black History Fact: Alice Allison Dunnigan | Black America Web
Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black woman named in that role in 1948. Dunnigan is also the first Black woman reporter to gain credentials to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress, and also the first Black woman to be elected to the Women’s National Press Club.
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