UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 9
October 31, 1996
PBS correspondent to present program on Nov. 20

     Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the award-winning national
correspondent for PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, will be the
featured speaker at the Delaware Humanities Forum fifth annual
lecture.
     She will speak on the human and civil rights movements in
America at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Clayton Hall. The
lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed
by a reception for the audience.
     Hunter-Gault took an active part in the integration of the
University of Georgia, where she received a journalism degree in
1963. After working for The New Yorker as a reporter, she moved
to the investigative news team at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.,
where she also was anchor for the evening news.
     In 1968, she joined The New York Times, where she remained
for 10 years, specializing in coverage of the black community.
     Hunter-Gault has served as the first woman anchor of the
MacNeil/Lehr News Hour from 1978 until the present time.
     Among her many awards, she has received two Emmys, and in
1986, she received the George Foster Peabody Award, the highest
award in broadcast journalism.
     She also is the author of In My Place, about her life
growing up in the Deep South and her role in integrating the
University of Georgia, a milestone in the Civil Rights Movement.
     Last year, Clayton Hall was filled to capacity for the
annual lecture.
     For reservations, call the Humanities Forum at 633-2400 or 
1-800-752-2060.