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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
American journalist
Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Charlayne hunter gault biography of martin
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia.[2]
Early life
Alberta Charlayne Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col.
Charles Shepherd Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Army, a regimental chaplain, and his wife, the former Althea Ruth Brown.[3][4] She became interested in journalism at the age of 12 after reading the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.[2]
In 1955, one year after the Brown v.
Board of Education ruling, Hunter was in eighth grade and was the only black student at an Army school in Alaska, where her father was stationed. Her parents divorced after spending the year in Alaska, and Hunte