Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a journalist and foreign correspondent for NPR. In 1961, she was one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia. She later went on to win two Emmy awards and a Peabody award for her work with PBS’s “The News Hour.” She currently divides her time between South Africa and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Books Authored

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Historical, History, U.S., 20th Century, Young Adult, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Historical, History, U.S., 20th Century, Young Adult, General Nonfiction, Young Adult, History, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Historical, U.S., General Nonfiction, 20th Century

To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement

January 2, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Janice Floyd Durante

“To the Mountaintop speaks to the power of the press in both accelerating and deepening public awareness of inequality, as journalists such as Ms.

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