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Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Photograph of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the students who desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961, in 1992 speaking at the first annual Holmes-Hunter lecture. They stand at a podium adorned with an image of the arches that serve as a symbol of the University of Georgia. Holmes, a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta until his death in 1995, was named the first African American member of the university foundation's board of trustees in 1983.
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Keywords

  1. African American Journalists
  2. African American Men
  3. African American Physicians
  4. African American Women
  5. African American Women Journalists
  6. African Americans
  7. Athens
  8. Atlanta
  9. Civil Rights
  10. College Integration
  11. Discrimination
  12. Georgia
  13. Holmes, Hamilton, 1941
  14. Hunter Gault, Charlayne
  15. Journalists
  16. Men
  17. Orthopedists
  18. Physicians
  19. Race Discrimination
  20. Racism
  21. Segregation In Education
  22. Social Conditions
  23. Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American
  24. Surgeons
  25. Universities
  26. University Of Georgia
  27. Women

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