# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alice-allison-dunnigan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:15.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alice-allison-dunnigan"
name: "Alice Allison Dunnigan"
slug: "alice-allison-dunnigan"
description: "Alice Allison Dunnigan was an American journalist, civil rights activist and author. Dunnigan was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials, and the first Black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. She wrote an autobiography entitled Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman's Experience. She is commemorated by an official Kentucky Historical Society marker."
tagline: "American journalist, civil rights activist and author (1906–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan_(1906-1983)_portrait.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1906-04-27"
deathDate: "1983-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.26
  momentum:             3.846153846153846
  historical:           5.941721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ایلس ایلیسن ڈنیگن"
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    title: "أليس أليسون دونغان"
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    title: "اليس اليسون دونجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan"
    title: "Alice Allison Dunnigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan"
    title: "Alice Allison Dunnigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan"
    title: "Alice Allison Dunnigan"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan"
    title: "Alice Allison Dunnigan"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4725708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump