As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, we take a step back in time with award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
The civil rights activist and Peabody Award recipient, along with Hamilton E. Holmes, were the first two students to integrate The University of Georgia in 1961, a time where the height of the Civil Rights Movement was broiling.
Hunter-Gault recently sat down with WABE’s “Morning Edition” to discuss her recollections of the Civil Rights Movement and how the leader at the helm of it, Dr. King himself, helped to inspire herself and her peers.
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