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Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Booker, Carol McCabe. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 517.
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. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan’s 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 ground-breaking American.
Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a ... Read more
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. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan’s 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 ground-breaking American.
Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820347981
SKU
V9780820347981
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About
Carol McCabe Booker is a former journalist and Washington, D.C., attorney. She is co-author with her husband, journalist Simeon Booker, of the highly acclaimed history Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
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