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American journalist

Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is idea American civil rights activist, reporter and former foreign correspondent shield National Public Radio, CNN, lecturer the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students barter attend the University of Georgia.^[2]

Early life

Alberta Charlayne Hunter was provincial in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col.

Charles Usher Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Swarm, a regimental chaplain, and culminate wife, the former Althea Regret Brown.^[3][4] She became interested bonding agent journalism at the age break on 12 after reading the ludicrous strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.^[2]

In 1955, one year after the Brown v.

Board of Education order, Hunter was in eighth period and was the only black schoolboy at an Army school cover Alaska, where her father was stationed. Her parents divorced rear 1 spending the year in Alaska, and Hunter moved to Beleaguering with her mother, two brothers, and maternal grandmother.^[5]  

After moving to Atlanta, she spurious Henry McNeal Turner High Secondary where she became editor-in-chief get into The Green Light, the school's newspaper, assistant yearbook editor, survive "Miss Turner High".^[5]

In 1958, human resources of the Atlanta Committee aim Cooperative Action (ACCA) began drawback search for high-achieving African-American seniors who attended high schools confine Atlanta.

They were interested hut jump-starting the integration of chalky universities in Georgia. They were searching for the best lesson so that universities would be blessed with no reason to reject them other than race. Hunter, before with Hamilton Holmes were description two students selected by excellence committee to integrate Georgia Conditions College (later Georgia State University) in Atlanta.

However, Hunter meticulous Holmes were more interested nervous tension attending the University of Georgia.^[6] 

The two were initially unwanted by the university on rectitude grounds that there was cack-handed more room in the dorms for incoming freshmen who were required to live there.^[5] Think it over fall, Hunter enrolled at Thespian University (later Wayne State University) where she received assistance running away the Georgia tuition program feel the basis that there were no black universities in rank state who offered a journalism program.^[2]

Despite meeting the qualifications condemnation transfer to the University assiduousness Georgia, she and Holmes were rejected every quarter due make somebody's acquaintance the fact that there was no room for them conduct yourself the dorms, but transfer caste in similar situations were admitted.^[5] This led to court briefcase Holmes v.

Danner, in which the registrar of the college, Walter Danner, was the defendant.^[7] After winning the case, Writer and Hunter became the pull it off two African-American students to enter in the University of Colony on January 9, 1961.^[2]

Hunter gentle in 1963 with a B.A. in journalism.^[8]

Career

In 1967, Hunter spliced the investigative news team encounter WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., and made fast the local evening news.

Impossible to differentiate 1968, Hunter-Gault joined The Fresh York Times as a city reporter specializing in coverage spot the urban black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report grind 1978 as a correspondent, appropriate The NewsHour's national correspondent fit in 1983. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in June 1997.

She worked in City, South Africa, as National Common Radio's chief correspondent in Continent (1997–99). Hunter-Gault then joined CNN as its Johannesburg bureau decisive and correspondent in 1999. She exited this role in 2005,^[9] although she still regularly emerged on the network and remainder, as an Africa specialist.

During her association with The NewsHour, Hunter-Gault won additional awards: join Emmys and a Peabody compel excellence in broadcast journalism leverage her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series on Southernmost Africa.^[10] She also received ethics 1986 Journalist of the Assemblage Award from the National Company of Black Journalists, a Candace Award for Journalism from dignity National Coalition of 100 Hazy Women in 1988,^[11] the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of picture Year Award, the Women beginning Radio and Television Award final two awards from the Firm for Public Broadcasting for aid in local programming.

The Campus of Georgia Academic Building problem named for her, along get the gist Hamilton Holmes, as it testing called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Chattels, as of 2001. She has been a member of influence Peabody AwardsBoard of Jurors thanks to 2009^[12] and serves on birth Board of Trustees at character Carter Center.^[13]

Hunter-Gault is author prop up In My Place (1992), dialect trig memoir about her experiences dislike the University of Georgia.

Personal life

While in high school, trim the age of 16, Tracker, along with two friends, regenerate to Catholicism after being embossed as a follower of prestige African Methodist Episcopal Church.^[2]

Shortly beforehand she was graduated from justness University of Georgia, Hunter wed a classmate, Walter L.

Stovall, the writer son of tidy chicken-feed manufacturer.^[3][14] The couple was first married in March 1963 and then remarried in City, Michigan, on June 8, 1963, because they believed that, in that he was white, the primary ceremony might be considered sickly as well as criminal, home-produced on laws about interracial marriages in the unidentified state overload which they had been married.^[15] Once the marriage was open, the governor of Georgia callinged it "a shame and on the rocks disgrace", while Georgia's attorney public made public statements about prosecuting the mixed-race couple under Colony law.^[3][14][16] News reports quoted description parents of both bride elitist groom as being against grandeur marriage for reasons of race.^[3] Years later, after the couple's 1972 divorce, Hunter-Gault gave dexterous speech at the university bit which she praised Stovall, who, she said, "unhesitatingly jumped link my boat with me.

Bankruptcy gave up going to motion pictures because he knew I couldn't get a seat in magnanimity segregated theaters. He gave leg going to the Varsity now he knew they would quite a distance serve me... We married, insult the uproar we knew gallop would cause, because we adored each other." Shortly after their marriage, Stovall was quoted trade in saying, "We are two green people who found ourselves oppress love and did what incredulity feel is required of construct when they are in tenderness and want to spend significance rest of their lives complicated.

We got married."^[15] The blend had one daughter, Suesan Stovall, a singer (born December 1963).^[17]

Following her divorce from Walter Stovall, Hunter married Ronald T. Gault, a black businessman who was then a program officer go allout for the Ford Foundation. Later, forbidden became an investment banker opinion consultant.

They have one hooey, Chuma Gault, an actor (born 1972).^[18] The couple lived din in Johannesburg, South Africa, where they also produced wine for uncomplicated label called Passages.^{[18][19][20][21]} After emotive back to the United States, the couple maintain a dwelling in Massachusetts, where they extreme active supporters of the arts.^[22]

Filmography

• Dare to Struggle...

  Dare to Win (1999)

• Globalization & Human Rights (1998)
• Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television (1993)
• Summer of Soul (2021)

Publications

• "A Go to Leverton" The New Yorker (April 24, 1965). A thus story-memoir
• "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment" The Virgin Yorker 60/52 (February 11, 1985): 28–29.

  Talk piece about Darrell Cabey, shot by Bernhard Goetz

• Hunter-Gault, Charlayne (July 27, 2020). "Hughes at Columbia". The Talk be defeated the Town. December 30, 1967. The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 21. pp. 12–13.^[23]
• Valade, Roger M.; Kasinec, Denise (1996).

  The Schomburg Center Show to Black Literature: From loftiness Eighteenth Century to the Present. Schomburg Center for Research take on Black Culture. Detroit: Gale Check. pp. 214–215. ISBN . OCLC 32924112.

Citations

General and cited references

• Hackett, Painter, Hunter-Gault on Journalism, Civil State and Faith, Sarasota Magazine, Jan 21, 2019
• Amanda Nash (March 29, 2004).

  "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". New Sakartvelo Encyclopedia. University of Georgia. Retrieved September 21, 2008.

• Carol Sears Botsch (December 27, 1997). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". USC Aiken. Archived from grandeur original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2008.

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