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Evelyn Cunningham

1916–2010

United States

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Evelyn Cunningham (January 25, 1916 – April 28, 2010) was an American journalist and aide to Nelson Rockefeller. Cunningham covered the early civil rights movement and was a reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Courier. In 1998, Cunningham was one of five former Courier reporters who accepted a George Polk Career Award for the paper's civil rights coverage, the first time the award had gone to a newspaper rather than an individual.

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