| Uniform title | Black woman's experience |
| Contents |
Those early years. No greater thrill -- The family tree and its bittersweet fruit -- Alone atop a hill -- School days -- Where there's a will -- The job hunt -- The ups and downs of my first job -- A plunge into the sea of matrimony -- A rugged voyage ends -- Moving on -- Wading through the depression -- Seeking identity, experience, and recognition -- A great new world. Converging on Washington -- Breaking down race and gender barriers -- A trip with the president -- The civil rights fights of the forties -- Profiles of injustice -- The president proposes; the congress debates -- Almost pushing the panic button -- Freedom fights of the fifties -- Eisenhower's pique. |
| Abstract |
"Booker proposes the republication of Alice Allison Dunnigan's original, unedited autobiography A Black Woman's Experience: From School House to White House (unavailable except as a collector's item). Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983) was the first African American woman to break the color and gender barriers of national journalism. During her time as a journalist, she reported for the Louisville Defender and Chicago Defender, and was a member of the Negro Associated Press. Dunnigan has been inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame for Journalism (1982) and for Human Rights (2010), and in 2013 was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. The original autobiography was self-published and quite long, thus failing to gain the wide readership it might have; Booker aims to make Dunnigan's story available once more and highly readable for a general audience. She has edited from its original 673 pages into a flowing, compelling narrative of approximately 234 pages (71,000 words)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Revision of the author's A Black woman's experience. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. |
| Other edition issued | Revision of: Black woman's experience. Philadelphia : Dorrance, [1974] |
| LCCN | 2014035977 |
| ISBN | 9780820347981 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0820347981 (hardback) |
