The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

6/15/2006; 6/17/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.092

Newspaper reporter, television news correspondent, and civic activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault (1942 - ) won admittance to the segregated University of Georgia in 1961. She has reported for 'The New York Times', PBS’s 'McNeil-Lehrer Newshour', NPR, and CNN, for whom she is the Johannesburg, South Africa bureau chief. Hunter-Gault was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/15/2006 and 6/17/2006, in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 11; Total Run Time: 05h 08m 00s

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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne

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Award-winning journalist, author, and school desegregation pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina, to Charles and Althea Hunter. Because her father, a chaplain in the United States Army, was often re-assigned, Hunter-Gault and her siblings attended schools in California, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia and Alaska. Hunter-Gault graduated third in her class from Atlanta's Henry McNeal Turner High School in 1960. Backed by a group of black businessmen and a...