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I'm Frahana Heather and today we go back to 1961 when the Washington Post newspaper hired an

African American woman as a reporter for the first time.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam was only 24 when she got the job. She's been speaking to me about the difficulties she faced as a black journalist in 1960s America and her fight to

diversify the media in the US.

The whole media industry, certainly the daily newspaper industry, was predominantly white male.

I didn't want to only cover the negative stories about black people.

I wanted to cover, you know, the fullness of black people. I wanted to cover, you know, the fullness of black life. I wanted to

capture that fullness. It was forcing some white Americans to see black Americans in a different

way. Dorothy Butler Gilliam grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father was a minister and had moved there to build a church.

It was a time where life in the southern states of America was segregated between black and white by explicit race laws.

Black people were denied equal rights.

They weren't allowed to use white only public facilities.

Dorothy got into journalism by accident when she was in her first year of college

and had a job as a secretary at the Louisville Defender, a weekly black newspaper.

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