Published by Vintage, 1993, softcover, illustrated, 256 pages, condition: as new.
This award-winning correspondent gives a moment-by-moment account of her walk into history when, as a 19-year-old, she challenged Southern law--and Southern violence--to become the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. A powerful act of witness to the brutal realities of segregation.
She is an amazing writer, this is a hard-to-put-down memoir rich in history and truth. Her graduation speech at the end is chock full of amazing quotable moments.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault worked in Johannesburg as National Public Radio's chief correspondent in Africa (199799). Hunter-Gault then joined CNN as its Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent in 1999. She exited this role in 2005, although she still regularly appeared on the network and others, as an Africa specialist.