From Girls in the Balcony by Nan Robertson regarding the 1955 decision by the National Press Club:
“Here were the people in the balcony, distinguished journalists treated like second-class citizens. I had to cover the stories there. Some people equated the balcony with the back of the bus, but at least the bus got everybody to the same destination just as well. We could not ask questions of the speakers. You entered and left through a back door. It was discrimination at its rawest .”
-- Bonnie Angelo, chief of the Newsday bureau in Washington
The National Press Club accepted women as members in 1971.
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