to Louisville, Kentucky, where he served as the only African American assistant commonwealth attorney until 1953, when he resigned after being dropped from a criminal prosecution of three white women. McAlpin later became head of the Louisville chapter of the NAACP. McAlpin died on July 18, 1985. Legacy McAlpin was posthumously honored by the White House Correspondents Association at their May 3, 2014 dinner. The WHCA created a scholarship in his memory, and President Barack Obama noted his pioneering journalism. References See also African-American journalists American newspaper reporters and correspondents Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1985 deaths 1906 births 20th-century American writers