In My Place: An Autobiography

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The award-winning correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour 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.

Additional information

Weight 0.31 kg
Dimensions 2.04 × 12.96 × 20.32 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

288

Publisher

Year Published

1993-11-2

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0679748180

About The Author

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a journalist and former NPR correspondent. She chronicled her experience as one of the first two black students to enroll in the University of Georgia in her memoir In My Place. Hunter-Gault also received two Emmys and a Peabody for her work on the NewsHour series, Apartheid's People. Her other works include To the Mountaintops: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement and New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance.

"In My Place is Charlayne Hunter-Gault's richly readable reminiscence of growing up black and middle class in the segregated South, and acquiring in that warm and caring environment the cold courage required to desegregate the University of Georgia."–Derrick Bell "Charlayne Hunter-Gault's moving, warm, frank autobiography is more than a personal chronicle. It is the biography of her generation for it epitomizes the experience of many courageous Black students who led the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It is essential reading for those who want to acquire a better understanding of the impact that the sixties generation had on America."–Joyce A. Ladner, Harvard University

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