{"title":"Charlayne Hunter-Gault","description":"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a journalist and foreign correspondent for NPR. In 1961, she was one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia. She later went on to win two Emmy awards and a Peabody award for her work with PBS's The NewsHour. She currently divides her time between South Africa and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"to-the-mountaintop-paperback","title":"To the Mountaintop - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and NPR journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Among the masses was Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She had flown from South Africa for the occasion, to witness what was for many the culmination of the long struggle for civil rights in the United States. In this compelling personal history, she uses the event to look back on her own involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who forced the University of Georgia to integrate, and to relate the pivotal events that swept the South as the movement gathered momentum through the early 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With poignant black-and-white photos, original articles from \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and a unique personal viewpoint, this is a moving tribute to the men and women on whose shoulders Obama stood.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51382917300447,"sku":"9781250040626","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KhRQQyA8Jg9781250040626.webp?v=1789293687"},{"product_id":"new-news-out-of-africa-uncovering-africas-renaissance-paperback","title":"New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's \u003cem\u003eThe News Hour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/em\u003e and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault here offers a fresh and surprisingly optimistic assessment of modern Africa, revealing that there is more to the continent than the bad news of disease, disaster, and despair.\u003cbr\u003e Blending personal memoir with sterling reportage and astute analysis, Hunter Gault presents an Africa we rarely see. She looks first at South Africa, contrasting the country she first encountered as a young reporter--when she personally witnessed the brutality of apartheid--with the black-led, multiracial society of today, a nation undergoing one of the most radical social and economic experiments in modern times. She acknowledges the great imbalance in income in modern South Africa (where upwards of 30 to 40 percent of blacks are unemployed) and describes the ravaging effect of AIDS on the nation, but she also underscores the nation's commitment to affirmative action, describes how South African universities have opened their doors to black students, and debunks many of the myths about the violence of South African society. Likewise, Hunter-Gault looks at the continent-wide efforts to promote \"an African Renaissance,\" illuminating the political and economic conditions in Rwanda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Angola, and Sierra Leone. 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