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Disappointed by the schools lack of courses, holmes suggested that he and hunter. Praise in my place is charlayne huntergaults richly readable reminiscence of growing up black and middle class in the segregated south, and acquiring in that warm and caring environment the cold courage required to desegregate the university of georgia. Charlayne huntergault on journalism, civil rights and. Charlayne hunter gault holds a place in georgia civil rights history as one of the first two african american students admitted to the university of georgia. May 11, 2011 charlayne hunter gault, an awardwinning journalist, author, and the first african american woman to integrate the university of georgia uga, was born in due west, south carolina in 1942. Charlayne huntergault is a journalist and former npr correspondent. A contributor to the new york times and the new yorker, a correspondent on the macneillehrer report, and the chief correspondent in africa for national public radio, hunter gault has worked in every journalistic medium.
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