Tag: Ethel Payne

• {2015 New Releases} Week 8: Feb 16-22

  

  Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by:James McGrath Morris Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era—pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the “First Lady of the Black Press”—elevating her to her […]

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  February 16, 2015

  New Releases

  Andrew Young, Chicago Defender, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Coretta Scott King, David J. Garrow, Ethel Lois Payne, Ethel Payne, FBI, Henry Kissinger, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, James McGrath Morris, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Voting Rights Act of 1965

• {Book Attraction} Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press by: Alice Dunnigan, Carol McCabe Booker

  

  In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations […]

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  January 25, 2015

  Book Attraction

  @UGAPress, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Carol McCabe Booker, Department of State and the Supreme Court, Ethel Payne, Helen Thomas, House and Senate Press Galleries, Kentucky, President Eisenhower, President Truman, University of Georgia Press, White House Newswomen’s Association, Women’s National Press Club, World War II