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To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement

by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Flash Point, 2012. 208p. ISBN 9781596436053. $22.99.
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The first African American woman to write for The New Yorker describes her experiences as one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Hunter-Gault has reported for the New York Times, NPR, and CNN, but her college years were a fight from the first, with mobs of white students chanting outside her dorm every night, "Two, four, six, eight. We don't want to integrate." Her story serves as a frame to talk about the broader school desegregation movement in the South, contrasting her own journey to that of President Barack Obama, who was born the year she entered college. This very personal account (shorter than her 1992 memoir about the same period, In My Place) offers a unique witness to the events of the Civil Rights Era, as an accomplished woman looks back on her younger self, making history.
One of the first students to desegregate an all-white college in the South looks at six pivotal years of the civil rights movement (1960–1965). Veteran journalist Hunter-Gault weaves her own experience into a larger history, going beyond well-known events to discuss some precursors. Period photographs and pages from the New York Times (articles appended) illustrate the gracefully written history. Reading list, timeline, websites. Ind.
Reviewed by Staff , Dec 20, 2012
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