Dorothy Pearl Butler Gilliam (born November 24, 1936) is an American journalist who in 1961 was the first African-American female reporter at The Washington Post.
When she watched on television at the Defender's offices, Wilson, who had gone to report the story, being beaten by a white mob during the 1957 Little Rock Nine school desegregation crises, she was shaken into action.
[1] She continued working at Jet and its sister publication, Ebony, but realized to get a reporter's job at a city daily newspaper, she needed even more formal credentials.
in 1976, Butler wrote a biography of the iconoclastic athlete, artist and political activist called "Paul Robeson, All American.
"[5] In addition to her career at The Washington Post, she has been an activist dedicated to public service, from her days helping to organize protests against the New York Daily News after it fired two-thirds of its African-American staff, to her tenure as president of the National Association of Black Journalists from 1993 to 1995.