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The University of Georgia desegregation riot was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation on January 11, 1961. The riot was caused by segregationists' protest over the desegregation of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia following the enrollment of Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, two African American students.
Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia. [2]
Holm was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the youngest of three children.Her father, Roger, is a Church of Christ preacher of Swedish and Native American ancestry—as a fighter, Holly would later be nicknamed "The Preacher's Daughter"—and her mother, Tammy, is a massage therapist of Irish and French descent.
The Holmes-Hunter Academic Building was dedicated recently on the UGA campus.
Holm, who acted in "Chariots of Fire," "Brazil" and "The Sweet Hereafter," died in 2020 at age 88. For Ridley Scott’s original 1979 sci-fi-horror classic “Alien,” Holm played Ash, a secretly ...
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) [1] is an American actress. For her performance as a mute Scottish woman in The Piano (1993), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . She earned three more Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003).
The latest Alien movie brought the franchise's fans a major surprise when it recreated the likeness of the late Ian Holm.. Holm, who died at 88 in 2020, originally portrayed the android character ...
Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July, 1941 – 26 October, 1995) was an American orthopedic physician.He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia.