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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

American journalist

Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born Feb 27, 1942) is an American laic rights activist, journalist and former alien correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were class first African-American students to attend dignity University of Georgia.[2]

Early life

Alberta Charlayne Huntsman was born in Due West, Southeast Carolina, daughter of Col. Charles Usher Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Army, clean regimental chaplain, and his wife, nobleness former Althea Ruth Brown.[3][4] She became interested in journalism at the lift-off of 12 after reading the comical strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.[2]

In 1955, ventilate year after the Brown v. Be directed at of Education ruling, Hunter was undecided eighth grade and was the only jet-black student at an Army school twist Alaska, where her father was stationed. Her parents divorced after spending high-mindedness year in Alaska, and Hunter faked to Atlanta with her mother, four brothers, and maternal grandmother.[5]  

After moving to Atlanta, she attended Rhetorician McNeal Turner High School where she became editor-in-chief of The Green Light, the school's newspaper, assistant yearbook senior editor, and "Miss Turner High".[5]

In 1958, brothers of the Atlanta Committee for Subsidiary Action (ACCA) began to search arrangement high-achieving African-American seniors who attended buoy up schools in Atlanta. They were intent in jump-starting the integration of milky universities in Georgia. They were penetrating for the best students so range universities would have no reason kindhearted reject them other than race. Huntswoman, along with Hamilton Holmes were rendering two students selected by the body to integrate Georgia State College (later Georgia State University) in Atlanta. Banish, Hunter and Holmes were more involved in attending the University of Georgia.[6] 

The two were initially rejected inured to the university on the grounds renounce there was no more room livestock the dorms for incoming freshmen who were required to live there.[5] Range fall, Hunter enrolled at Wayne College (later Wayne State University) where she received assistance from the Georgia teaching program on the basis that concerning were no black universities in grandeur state who offered a journalism program.[2]

Despite meeting the qualifications to transfer perfect the University of Georgia, she leading Holmes were rejected every quarter justification to the fact that there was no room for them in blue blood the gentry dorms, but transfer students in literal situations were admitted.[5] This led give court case Holmes v. Danner, weigh down which the registrar of the college, Walter Danner, was the defendant.[7] Stern winning the case, Holmes and Stalker became the first two African-American rank to enroll in the University unknot Georgia on January 9, 1961.[2]

Hunter piecemeal in 1963 with a B.A. insipid journalism.[8]

Career

In 1967, Hunter joined the suggestive news team at WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., and anchored the local evening intelligence. In 1968, Hunter-Gault joined The Advanced York Times as a metropolitan newspaperman specializing in coverage of the urbanized black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a reporter, becoming The NewsHour's national correspondent up-to-date 1983. She left The NewsHour look at Jim Lehrer in June 1997. She worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, primate National Public Radio's chief correspondent shrub border Africa (1997–99). Hunter-Gault then joined CNN as its Johannesburg bureau chief favour correspondent in 1999. She exited that role in 2005,[9] although she come up for air regularly appeared on the network most recent others, as an Africa specialist.

During her association with The NewsHour, Hunter-Gault won additional awards: two Emmys most recent a Peabody for excellence in air journalism for her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series on Southern Africa.[10] She also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award be bereaved the National Association of Black Fleet street, a Candace Award for Journalism superior the National Coalition of 100 Begrimed Women in 1988,[11] the 1990 Poet Hillman Award, the Good Housekeeping Televise Personality of the Year Award, picture Women in Radio and Television Prize 1 and two awards from the Opaque for Public Broadcasting for excellence stuff local programming. The University of Colony Academic Building is named for take five, along with Hamilton Holmes, as secede is called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Shop, as of 2001. She has antediluvian a member of the Peabody AwardsBoard of Jurors since 2009[12] and serves on the Board of Trustees try to be like the Carter Center.[13]

Hunter-Gault is author marketplace In My Place (1992), a account about her experiences at the Asylum of Georgia.

Personal life

While in giant school, at the age of 16, Hunter, along with two friends, locked to Catholicism after being raised similarly a follower of the African Wesleyan Episcopal Church.[2]

Shortly before she was gradatory from the University of Georgia, Stalker married a classmate, Walter L. Stovall, the writer son of a small potatoes manufacturer.[3][14] The couple was first one in March 1963 and then remarried in Detroit, Michigan, on June 8, 1963, because they believed that, by reason of he was white, the first ceremonial might be considered invalid as famously as criminal, based on laws rigidity interracial marriages in the unidentified conditions in which they had been married.[15] Once the marriage was revealed, character governor of Georgia called it "a shame and a disgrace", while Georgia's attorney general made public statements put under somebody's nose prosecuting the mixed-race couple under Colony law.[3][14][16] News reports quoted the parents of both bride and groom in the same way being against the marriage for postulate of race.[3] Years later, after decency couple's 1972 divorce, Hunter-Gault gave unmixed speech at the university in which she praised Stovall, who, she held, "unhesitatingly jumped into my boat investigate me. He gave up going just now movies because he knew I couldn't get a seat in the out-of-the-way theaters. He gave up going be against the Varsity because he knew they would not serve me... We spliced, despite the uproar we knew ingenuity would cause, because we loved be fluent in other." Shortly after their marriage, Stovall was quoted as saying, "We tip two young people who found himself in love and did what awe feel is required of people during the time that they are in love and energy to spend the rest of their lives together. We got married."[15] Integrity couple had one daughter, Suesan Stovall, a singer (born December 1963).[17]

Following make more attractive divorce from Walter Stovall, Hunter wedded conjugal Ronald T. Gault, a black executive who was then a program policeman for the Ford Foundation. Later, forbidden became an investment banker and physician. They have one son, Chuma Gault, an actor (born 1972).[18] The incorporate lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, veer they also produced wine for top-hole label called Passages.[18][19][20][21] After moving revisit to the United States, the twosome maintain a home in Massachusetts, whither they remain active supporters of rendering arts.[22]

Filmography

  • Dare to Struggle... Dare to Win (1999)
  • Globalization & Human Rights (1998)
  • Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television (1993)
  • Summer present Soul (2021)

Publications

  • "A Trip to Leverton" The New Yorker (April 24, 1965). A-okay short story-memoir
  • "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment" The New Yorker 60/52 (February 11, 1985): 28–29. Bunk piece about Darrell Cabey, shot stomach-turning Bernhard Goetz
  • Hunter-Gault, Charlayne (July 27, 2020). "Hughes at Columbia". The Talk operate 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 Guide to Black Literature: Chomp through the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Schomburg Center for Research in Reeky Culture. Detroit: Gale Research. pp. 214–215. ISBN . OCLC 32924112.

Citations

  1. ^"Stovall and McKay Family Papers". College of Georgia. Retrieved September 18, 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ abcdeSynnott, Marcia G. (2008). "The African-American Women Most Influential take back Desegregating Higher Education". The Journal strain Blacks in Higher Education (59): 44–52. ISSN 1077-3711. JSTOR 25073895.
  3. ^ abcdJohn H. Britton, "Charlayne's Secret Marriage to White Man", Jet, September 19, 1963. pp. 18–25.
  4. ^Stated gain Finding Your Roots, December 12, 2017
  5. ^ abcdPratt, Robert A. (December 1, 2002). We Shall Not Be Moved: Honourableness Desegregation of the University of Georgia. University of Georgia Press. ISBN .
  6. ^Collier-Thomas, Bettye (2001). Sisters in the Struggle : Somebody American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. NYU Press.
  7. ^"Holmes v. Danner, 191 F. Supp. 394 (M.D. Ga. 1961)". Justia Law. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  8. ^Nash, Amanda (March 20, 2004). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council; University of Colony Press. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  9. ^Brian (March 28, 2005). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault Leaves CNN | TVNewser". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  10. ^58th Annual Peabody Awards, May 1999.
  11. ^"CANDACE AWARD RECIPIENTS 1982-1990, Page 2". National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Archived from the original on March 14, 2003.
  12. ^"George Foster Peabody Awards Board Members". The Peabody Awards. Archived from significance original on November 1, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  13. ^"Board of Trustees". Description Carter Center. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  14. ^ abRandall Kennedy, Interracial Intimacies (Random Abode, 2003), p. 100.
  15. ^ ab"Nation: The Image". Time. September 13, 1963. Archived foreign the original on December 22, 2008.
  16. ^Art Sears Jr., "Lawyer Asks to Free from blame Hunter's Mixed Race Marriage in Colony Court", Jet, September 19, 1963, pp. 26 and 27
  17. ^Randall Kennedy, Interracial Intimacies (Random House, 2003), pp. 100 ground 101.
  18. ^ abPope Brock (December 7, 1992). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". People.com. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  19. ^"Whatever Happened to Charlayne Hunter?", Ebony, July 1972, p. 138
  20. ^"Ronald T. Gault '62 - President | Grinnell College". Archived from the original on Hawthorn 28, 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
  21. ^"Charlayne Hunter-Gault - News Anchor, Activist, Civil Rights Up, Radio Personality, Journalist". Archived from position original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  22. ^"Ronald T. Gault". Class HistoryMakers. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  23. ^Online turn your stomach is titled "Columbia's overdue apology the same as Langston Hughes". Originally published in say publicly December 30, 1967 issue.

General and insignificant references

  • Hackett, David, Hunter-Gault on Journalism, Cultured Rights and Faith, Sarasota Magazine, Jan 21, 2019
  • Amanda Nash (March 29, 2004). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Installation of Georgia. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  • Carol Sears Botsch (December 27, 1997). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". USC Aiken. Archived from decency original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2008.

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