Alice Allison Dunnigan was chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Negro Press, between 1947 and 1961. She was the first Black woman to receive accreditation to the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries, the first to hold a White House press pass, and the first to become a member of the State Department Correspondents Association. Her articles have appeared in 112 weekly newspapers throughout United States and abroad. She was decorated by the President of Haiti for reporting and received more than 50 awards for outstanding achievement in journalism and community service. Dunnigan held appointments from President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson to work in areas of equal opportunity and youth opportunity. Native of Russellville, Dunnigan taught school in Logan and Todd counties and first worked for the Owensboro Enterprise and the Louisville Defender before moving to Washington in 1942.