IN MY PLACE
A MEMOIR
by CHARLAYNE HUNTER GAULT

"A remarkable look at a black family and its reluctant heroine. Charlayne Hunter-Gault's coming-of-age history-making story of her childhood and her integration of the University of Georgia is an invaluable first-person account, told with more wry humor than bitterness."                                                                                                        -Julian Bond "One of the great memoirs about the Civil Rights movement. Its eloquence and passion moved me as few books have  in recent years. It was the black kids like Charlayne Hunter who taught southern whites like me what it meant to be fully and magnificently American.                                                                                             -Pat Conroy "Charlayne Hunter-Gault  has been a "shero" of mine since I first saw her bright, courageous, and beautiful face on television over twenty five years ago, when she and "Hamp" Holmes integrated the University of Georgia in our home state. This is the book, frank, thoughtful, funny, and moving, that tells us of the heart beneath the armor of conviction that inspired so many of her sisters and fellow Georgians. I am immensely grateful to have it."                                                                                            -Alice Walker "A fascinating story of an extraordinary person, Charlayne Hunter-Gault's moving and candid narrative of what it is and means to be a human being of African descent in America highlights what we need so desperately-an inclusive moral vision of dignity and a courageous spirit that exemplifies hope for a better future."                                                                                           -Cornell West

"'We were simply doing what we were raised to do'-with this moving brief statement Charlayne Hunter-Gault redefines
   the black struggle. In a strikingly personal and yet universal experience of our time, she tells of her confident acceptance
   of her black self in the face of the hurt and humiliation of America's deep south apartheid, and what emerges is a
   generous spirit of humanity that must put to shame any racist anywhere. Her story is told with the verve and sharp
    intelligence that we know from her television persona, now turned an illumination of her own life."
                                                                                                                                                      -Nadine Gordimer
   In this direct, winning memoir, Charlayne Hunter-Gault tells the story of her life from her birth in a Deep South still
   living out the legacy of the Civil War to her historic role in desegregating the University of Georgia, a high point
   in the Civil Rights Movement.                               
                                                                                                                               -from inside jacket

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is known to millions of Americans as national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer News-Hour.
    

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