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Born February 27, 1942, in Due West, SC
Charlayne Hunter-Gault was one of the first two Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. She worked as a journalist for The New Yorker and The New York Times before joining The MacNeil/Lehrer Report as a national correspondent in 1978. She has received two Emmy Awards, and in 1986 was the recipient of the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her reporting on South Africa. She was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2005. She wrote a memoir, In My Place (1992), and recently published My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives (2023).