One woman's journey to civil rights
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In 1961, Charlayne Hunter-Gault made civil rights history when she became the first African-American woman to enter the University of Georgia. Hunter-Gault, a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, told her story at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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