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Charlayne Hunter-Gault to deliver Darl Snyder Lecture

By Kim Cretors
kcretors@uga.edu

Charlayne Hunter-Gault will deliver the 11th annual Darl Snyder Lecture on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in Mahler Auditorium at the

Hunter-Gault

Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The lecture is sponsored by UGA’s African Studies Institute and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
In 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first African-American students admitted to UGA. During the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of desegregation at UGA two years ago, the Academic Building where she and Holmes registered for classes was renamed the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building. Hunter-Gault wrote for The New York Times before joining PBS’s MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, a program with which she was long affiliated. Following an assignment as chief Africa correspondent for National Public Radio, she accepted her current position as CNN International bureau chief in Johannesburg. Her numerous honors include two Peabody Awards for her coverage of Africa. Her memoir, In My Place, was published in 1992.
The annual Snyder lecture allows Africanists on campus and in the broader community to interact with students earning a certificate in African studies. Past lecturers include Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, African philosopher Ali Mazrui and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan.
The series was established in 1992 in honor of Snyder, who was instrumental in the establishment of African studies at UGA. Snyder began work at UGA’s Rural Development Center in Tifton in 1969 and became director in July 1972. In 1975, Snyder was named director of international programs in agriculture at UGA’s main campus in Athens. He was appointed director of international development in 1977 and was named associate vice president for public service and outreach in 1989. Snyder retired from UGA in 1992. Since then, Snyder and his wife, Florence, have remained actively involved with the African Studies Institute.

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