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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Born February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina

Charlayne Hunter was one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in Athens in 1961. She worked as a journalist for the New Yorker and the New York Times before joining “The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour” as a national correspondent in 1978. She has received two Emmy Awards, and in 1986 was the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for “Apartheid’s People,” a report on South Africa. Hunter-Gault published a memoir, In My Place, 1992, and New News Out of Africa, 2006, an assessment of modern Africa. She was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in...

1986
gelatin silver print
29.0 x 27.0 x 1.5 in