Packet 5: Bonus 5

Answer the following about Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first Black woman to receive White House press credentials, for 10 points each.
[10h] Dunnigan was paid less than her male colleagues at this newspaper founded by Robert S. Abbott, which prominently reported on the success stories of the Great Migration.
ANSWER: The Chicago Defender [prompt on The Defender]
[10e] Dunnigan became the first African-American female White House correspondent while accompanying this president’s campaign. The Chicago Daily Tribune erroneously claimed that Thomas Dewey defeated this president.
ANSWER: Harry S. Truman
[10m] Despite her credentials, Dunnigan was barred from covering the funeral of this politician, who was suppressed by the “Fair Play” proposal at the 1952 RNC and was nicknamed “Mr. Republican.”
ANSWER: Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr. [prompt on Taft]
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