When President John F. Kennedy took office, he welcomed her tough questions. In 2022, the White House Correspondents' Association created an award in her honor. She also worked for the Department of Labor and the President's Council of Youth Opportunity.

She continued writing and had articles published in the Louisville Defender and other local newspapers. With more than 11 million items in the collection, the Schomburg center is devoted to the preservation and exhibition of Black history, and the arts and culture of the African diaspora.

Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first Black female White House Correspondent.

So, she wrote "Kentucky Fact Sheets" to teach them more. She wrote about the end of Jim Crow laws in the 1940s and 1950s. Alice refused to submit her questions in advance. But she aspired to a career as a reporter, and by age thirteen she began writing short news items for a local paper.

As a young woman, Dunnigan taught school while contributing to the Lousiville Defender, the Louisville Leader, and the Derbytown Informer.

She also took night classes at Howard University. The editor paid her less than male reporters at first. She was born in rural Kentucky and worked her way through school doing laundry, cleaning houses, and washing dishes—among the few jobs available to Black women in the Jim Crow South. In 1992, Jemison was also the first African American woman in space, flying there aboard the spaceship Endeavor with six other astronauts.

Arturo Schomburg was a writer, historian and activist.

Politicians sometimes tried to avoid answering her.

Her journalism career started early, at age 13. She wrote stories on local African American families and their interests.

In 1942, Dunnigan moved to Washington, D.C., and began working for the U.S. Department of Labor. He even asked for her questions beforehand. At first, she was denied access.

She also became a reporter for Associated Negro Press.