If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

and also anchored the local evening news. Years later after the couple's 1972 divorce Hunter-Gault gave a speech at the university in which Charlayne Hunter-Gault praised Stovall who Charlayne Hunter-Gault said "unhesitatingly jumped into my boat with me.

In 1967 Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV Washington D. In 1961 Athens Georgia witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African-American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent and became The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983.