Special Final Word - Charlayne Hunter-Gault

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The month of March is international women's history month and we recently celebrated International Women's Day. Black history month just ended in February -- and so in honor of both, Katie will be highlighting some outstanding women in this space. This week...Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an Emmy award winning investigative journalist and recipient of 2 Peabody Awards. But before any of that, she was the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia in the segregated South in 1961. Charlayne Hunter-Gault graduated with a degree in journalism in 1963. She went on to work for the New York Times ,The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and worked as NPR's chief correspondent in Africa for many years. She's also an author. She wrote in my place a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a pioneer and paved the way for many women in journalism and education. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	Welcome to Words Matter, with Katie Barlow.
0:39.3	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:42.8	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:45.9	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:52.2	Hustles have power and words have consequences.
0:57.0	The month of March is International Women's History Month, and we recently celebrated International
1:02.6	Women's Day.
1:04.1	We just ended Black History Month in February and in honor of both, I'd like to highlight
1:09.0	some outstanding women throughout this month as my final word.
1:13.3	Charlene Hunter-Gault is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and has also picked
1:18.5	up two pee body awards along the way.
1:21.7	Before any of that, she was the first Black woman to attend the University of Georgia
1:27.2	in the segregated South in 1961.
1:30.5	She was initially denied entry to the University of Georgia, but with some help from NAACP
1:37.3	lawyer Constance Baker Motley, who by the way later became the first African-American
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