Charlayne hunter gault biography of rory

          Rory O'Connor is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker.

        1. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.
        2. She was the daughter of an Army chaplain who kept reminding her that her mind was first-rate, and of a mother who did most of the child-rearing.
        3. Of Georgia.
        4. Acclaimed human-rights series hosted by journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, which offers a global perspective and diverse viewpoints.

          5. She was the daughter of an Army chaplain who kept reminding her that her mind was first-rate, and of a mother who did most of the child-rearing..

          Charlayne Hunter-Gault

          American journalist

          Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) 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.[2]

          Early life

          Alberta Charlayne Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col.

          Charles Shepherd Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Army, a regimental chaplain, and his wife, the former Althea Ruth Brown.[3][4] She became interested in journalism at the age of 12 after reading the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.[2]

          In 1955, one year after the Brown v.

          Board of Education ruling, Hunter was in eighth grade and was the only black student at an Army school in Alaska, where her father was stationed. Her parents divorced after spending the year in Alaska, and Hunte