Abzug, Bella, 149
Afro-American (Washington), 120, 122, 150, 183, 193
Alexander, Sadie T., 152
Allensville, Ky., 71–72
Allison, Alex (grandfather), 9–10, 13
Allison, Jack (great-grandfather), 9–10
Allison, Richard (brother), 14, 19–21, 48–49
drops out of school, 27
Allison, Willie (father), 9, 10, 13
confronts Charles Dunnigan, 83
marries Lena Pittman, 14
politics, 78
tenant farmer / sharecropper, 15–17, 35
Anderson, Artelia, 74
Anderson, D. H., 74–75
Associated Negro Press, ix
as employer, xiii–xiv, 104, 105–7, 134, 163, 169–70
history and clients, 104, 114, 163
and the “hustle,” 164. See also Barnett, Claude A.
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 94.
Bailey, Cleveland, 156
Barnes, Sam, 183
Barnett, Claude A.: ANP founder, xiii, 104
commends Dunnigan, 164
Congressional shooting, 172
death, 170
Eisenhower controversy, 195, 198
employs Dunnigan, xiii–xiv, 104
gender bias, xiv, 111, 118, 207n3
role of bureau chief, 173, 180
Truman trip, 118–20. See also Associated Negro Press
Barron, Sylura, 130
Berry, Abner W., 195
Berry, R. L., 93
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 95
Bibbs, Carvin, 90–91
Bigbee, C. P. M., 31, 49, 50–52, 57
Bigbee, Octavia, 31–32
Black Woman’s Experience—from Schoolhouse to White House, A (Alice Dunnigan), x
Bluford, Lucile H., 131
Booker, Simeon, xii, 196–97. See also Jet
bootlegger, hip-pocket, 167–68, 169
Bowles, Joe, 96–97
Boys Town, 127
Briscoe, Sherman, 150
Brooks, C. Wayland “Curley,” 110, 111, 113
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 160
Brown, Geneva, 177
Brown, George F., xv. See also Pittsburgh Courier
Brown, Wesley A., 179
Brownell, Samuel M., 188–89
Bunche, Ralph, 165
Call (Kansas City), 131
Capital Press Club, xiv
Capitol (Congressional) Press Galleries, ix, 153, 154. See also House Press Gallery; Senate Press Gallery
Carter, Art, 183
Carter, Robert, 174
Carter Barron Theatre, 177
Chapman, Oscar, 186
Cheyenne, Wyo., 127–28
Chicago Defender, 112, 119, 170
publisher, 153
Truman trip, 120
chicken, theft of, 91
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 152n6, 179
Civil Rights Act of 1960, 181
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 162, 188, 214n6, 215n5
Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 151, 154–56
Clark, Tom, 144
Coffman, Edward, 99–100
Cole, I. Willis, 94
Cornish, Samuel Eli, 1–2
Cox, E. E., 154
Craig, May, 112
Davis, Frank Marshall, xiv
Davis, James C., 157–58
Dawson, William L., 136–37, 155
DePriest, Oscar, 77
Derbytown Press, 96
Dickinson, Walter: church organist, 54
courts Alice, 60
incident with Turner, 55–56, 59
married life with, 61–73
Dickinson, Miss Willie, 62
Dixon, Turner, 51, 54–56, 59, 61
Douglass, Frederick, 9
DuBois, W. E. B., 174
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 80
Dunn, Eddie, 127
Dunnigan, Charles: boyhood, 19, 27–28
courts and marries Alice, 81–84
goes to Washington, D.C., 105
married life, 85–86, 92–93, 96, 100
parts ways with Alice, 106
Dunnigan, Robert William, 85, 86, 87, 203–4
Eisenhower, Dwight David: civil rights legislation, 190
equal employment opportunity, 161
press conferences, xv, 176, 189, 190–99
Russwurm Award, 190
school desegregation, 176, 188–89
Ewing, Oscar R., 187–88
Fair Employment Practices: Bureau of Engraving complaint, 191
calls for permanent committee on, 140, 157, 160–62
committee created by FDR, 160
permanent commission established, 214n6
Fleeson, Doris, 120
Fontenelle Hotel, 126–27
Freedmen’s Hospital, 188
Freedom’s Journal, 2
Gallinger Hospital, 188
Globe (Hopkinsville), 72
Gore, George, 95
Granger, Lester, 153
Great Depression, 90–91
effect on school year / teacher salaries, 84
President Hoover blamed, 117
scarcity of jobs, 82
scavenging for food, 89
WPA, 86–89
Green, Benjamin, 98
Griffith, Thomas, Jr., 131
Griffith Stadium, 184
Hart, LeRoy, 131
Haynes, Oscar, 150
Hecht Company, 178
Hicks, James “Jimmy,” 113
Hill, Robert, II, 126–27
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 188–89
Hopkinsville, Ky., 61, 67, 68, 72, 84
House Press Gallery, 8, 171. See also Capitol (Congressional) Press Galleries; Senate Press Gallery
Houston, Charles, 174
Houston, William, 138
Howard University, 140, 165, 183, 188
Howell, Alaska, 131–32
Hueston, William C., 118
Indianapolis Recorder, 132–33
Industrial Bank of Washington, 153–54
Ingram, Rosa Lee, 143–48
Ives, Irving, 161
Johnson, Lyndon B., 174, 201, 202, 203
Great Society, 162
vice president, 203
Johnson, Mordecai, 140
Johnston, Eric, 157
Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 153–54
Jones, Michael “Casey,” 183
Kennedy, John F.: presidential campaign, 201–2
press conferences, 181, 197, 198–99
Kentucky colonel, 97
Kentucky Negro Education Association, 94
Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, 35–37
Kentucky Reporter, 93
Kentucky State College, 36, 75, 86
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 193
Lacey, Sam, 183
Lanham, Henderson, 154–55
Lautier, Louis, 110–12, 113, 192–94, 212n4
Leigh, Fred, 183
Lighthouse, 77
Lincoln University, 132
Los Angeles Sentinel, 131
Louisville Defender, 93–94
Louisville Leader, 94
Louisville Municipal College, 94
Major Bowes Amateur Hour, 96–97
Marcantonio, Vito, 149
Marshall, Thurgood, 174
Martin, Martin A., 151
Martinsville Seven, 149–51
McAlpin, Harry, 112
McCarthy, Joseph, 174
McDaniel, Hattie, 131
McGee, Willie, 148–49
Meany, George, 189
Missoula, Mont., 122
Mitchell, Arthur W., 77
Mitchell, Clarence, Jr., 193–94
Mitchell, James P., 161–62
Mitchell, Jesse, 153
Mitchell, M. Frederick, 148
Moreland, J. F. K., 68
Motion Picture Association of America, 157
Mound Bayou, Miss., 98
Mount Pisgah, Ky., 49, 50–55, 58, 66, 72
Nabrit, James, 174
National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), xii
National Association of Media Women, xvi
National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), 95, 119
National Lawyers Guild, 177
National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), xvi, 110, 190
National School Lunch Act, 31n2
National Theatre, 176–77
National Urban League, 153, 154
Negro Boxing Writers Association, 183
Negro press, 1
Norfolk Journal and Guide, 120
Office of Price Administration (OPA), 105
Olympia, Wash., 123–24
Our World, 110
Owensboro, Ky., 29
Owensboro Enterprise, 93
Paige, Satchel, 184–85
Panama Canal Zone, 159–60
Parran, Thomas, Jr., 187
Patterson, William L., 154–56
Payne, Ethel, 112, 190–93, 195
Pembroke, Ky., 69–70
Perry, Leslie, 120
Philadelphia Stars, 184–85
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, 103–4
Pittman, Jake (great-grandfather), 10–11
Pittman, Lena (mother), 10–13
and Charles Dunnigan, 82, 84–86
marriage to Willie Allison, 14
Pittman, Minerva (grandmother), 10, 14, 16, 21–24
Pittsburgh Courier, xiv–xv, 113, 120, 183
Poston, E., 68
Poston, Ted, 68
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., xv, 105, 156, 158
Prattis, Percival L., xiv–xv, 110
President’s Council on Youth Opportunity, 203
Progressive Party, 130, 134–35
Puerto Rico, 171–73
Randolph, A. Philip, 160
Rankin, John, 158
Rash, Bryson, 133
Reddy, Maurice, 124
Red River, 36–37
Reidsville, Ga., 144–46
Roberts, Ric, 183
Robeson, Eslanda, 175
Robinson, Evermont, 179n6
Robinson, Jackie, 184
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 125, 135, 160, 211n2
Roosevelt Hotel, 138
Rosenwald, Julius, 78
schools, 78
Ross, Charles “Charlie,” 112, 116–17, 128
Royall, Kenneth, 137
Russell, Clayton, 129–30
Russellville, Ky., 15, 29, 78, 95–96
Russwurm, John B., 1, 190. See also Negro press
Sabath, Adolph J., 154
Scheele, Leonard, 187
Scruggs, Sherman R., 132
Scull, David, 177
Senate Press Gallery, 8, 108–11. See also Capitol (Congressional) Press Galleries; House Press Gallery
Sengstacke, John H., 153
Service magazine, 122, 127, 168
Sigma Gamma Rho, 118
Simmons, Roscoe Conkling, 112
Simmons University, 36
Southern Conference on Human Welfare (SCHW), 107
Southern Manifesto, 157n3
Spaulding, Jane, 189
Spaulding, Ruth, 36–37
Stanley, Frank, 93–94
State Department Press Association, 113
States’ Rights Party, 135
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 142
Sun Valley, Idaho, 128
Supreme Court of the United States, xiv, 148–49, 173–74
desegregation of public facilities in Washington, D.C., 177, 190
school desegregation, 30m, 177, 187, 189
Sutton, James Patrick “Pat,” 157
Talmadge, Herman, 147–48
Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College, 95
Terrell, Mary Church, 144, 147, 177–78
thanky pans, 90
Thompson, William S. “Turk,” 193
Thompson’s Cafeteria 177-78
Thurmond, Strom, 135
Times-Herald (Washington), 112
Tobias, Channing, 152
Todd, Tomlinson D., 198
Todd County, Ky., 47, 49, 71, 79
Towles, Shepherd, 180
Trigg, Joe, 183
Truman, Harry S.: antilynching legislation, 151–52
civil rights, commitment to, 123, 130–31, 151–52, 153–54, 161, 177
Democratic platform plank on, 122–23, 130, 135
discrimination abroad, 159–60
discrimination in military, 137, 140, 153, 175–76, 190
Fair Deal, 139
McGee case, 149
presidential election, 117, 136
Puerto Rico, 172
whistle-stop tour, x, xiv, 116, 117, 120–33
Tuskegee Institute, 122, 127, 168
Tutt, Frances, 50–52, 55–56, 58–60
Tyler, Roberta, 69–70
United Federal Workers of America, 104
Vail, Richard B., 157
Vaughn, Arletta, 25–26
Vinson, Fred, 149
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 152n6, 181
Warren, Earl, 129
West Kentucky Industrial College, 74–75, 81
Wilson, J. Finley, 103
Wolcott, Joe, 181
Women’s National Press Club, 112
Women’s Suffrage Amendment, 23
Woodson, Carter G., 94–95
Yates, Clayton R., 148
Young, John III, 120