Award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born in Due West, South Carolina. She became one of the first two Black students to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961 and went on to have a groundbreaking career in journalism. Hunter-Gault worked for The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, and NPR, and became a prominent voice for civil rights and international reporting.
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