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- ↑ Ritchie, Donald A. (2005). Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199839094.
When the National Press Club admitted Louis Lautier as its first African American member in 1955, the women hoped their turn would soon follow.
- ↑ "The World Today". The Pittsburgh Courier. May 19, 1962. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ↑ "Archives Center | Portraits of a City: The Scurlock Photographic Studio, Lautier, Louis R., d. 1962". Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). 2005-04-12. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ↑ The African American national biography. Henry Louis, Jr. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-516019-2. OCLC 156816848.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Donald A. Ritchie, Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 36-37.
- ↑ Gil Klein, Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National Press Club (Turner Publishing, 2008), pp. 62-65.
- ↑ "The Press: Color Bar". Time Magazine. January 31, 1955. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
Negroes are admitted to the club's big banquet hall when it is rented out to other organizations, but only two have ever ventured into the members' private dining room or Press Club bar. One, William Hastie, now a federal judge, was refused service; the other, C.I.O. Aide George Weaver, was served luncheon, but his newsman host got an anonymous letter warning him never to bring a Negro again.
- ↑ Ritchie, Donald A. (2005). Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps . New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 45. ISBN 0195346327.