Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born Charlayne Hunter on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina) is the Johannesburg, South Africa bureau chief for CNN. She is a former national correspondent for PBS and a former chief correspondent for NPR. In 1961 she and Hamilton E. Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia, ending racial segregation at that institution. Her dormitory, Myers Hall, became the center of racial riots early in her tenure there. Despite the turmoil, she graduated from the University of Georgia in 1963.
Hunter-Gault has won two Peabody Awards and two Emmy Awards for her work in journalism. The academic building at the University of Georgia where she and Holmes registered for classes was renamed the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building in 2001. Hunter-Gault was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame in 2005. She sits on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2005 a memorial to Hunter-Gault in the Myers Hall dormitory at the University of Georgia drew criticism for the use of an un-attributed racial slur. Hunter-Gault herself petitioned for its inclusion in the memorial, but it was ultimately replaced with a quote from her book In My Place, along with her letter to the student paper[link] supporting the slur's use following intensive regional media attention and protest by the campus branch of the NAACP[link].
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