First Black women to cover the White House are honored in the briefing room

Posted Monday, January 22, 2024 11:39 am

Erica L. Green | The New York Times

On her first day covering the White House, Alice Dunnigan had every reason to stand out.

She was the first Black woman to be credentialed to join the White House press corps, and she had even arrived an hour early to cover her first news conference with President Harry S. Truman. But as she sat in the lobby of the West Wing, she may as well have been invisible.

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