Person · 1942–
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
A journalist who, as a teenager, helped integrate the University of Georgia, then reported for the Times, PBS, and NPR.
A figure of both the [[civil-rights-movement]] and the Black press.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault braved a riot to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961, then spent decades as an award-winning correspondent covering Africa and the long arc of the freedom struggle.