UGA to Mark 50th Anniversary of Desegregation

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the first black students to register at the University of Georgia, is returning to her alma mater in a two-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school’s  desegregation. Suggested Reading America’s Birth Rate Is Shifting Toward a Minority Majority and Now Things Are Starting to Make Sense How Trump Now…

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the first black students to register at the University of Georgia, is returning to her alma mater in a two-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school’s  desegregation.

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On Monday, Jan. 10, she will deliver a lecture, and on Tuesday, Jan. 11, she will lead a campuswide discussion of her memoir, In My Place.

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