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Civil Rights Activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault Shares Integration Experience

April 10, 2014 College of Arts and Humanities | David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Civil Rights Activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault Shares Integration Experience

Celebrated journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks at the David C. Driskell Center about integration at the University of Georgia.

By Elena Baurkot, The Diamondback.

Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on qualities such as race, skin color and gender, President Obama will deliver an address in Austin, Texas, today to commemorate the anniversary. 

This university also recognized the passing of the legislation with a lecture by Charlayne Hunter-Gault,  author, award-winning journalist and civil rights activist. She spoke last night to more than 100 people about her experiences during the civil rights movement at the David C. Driskell Center in Cole Field House.

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