- Mother of Chuma Gault.
- In 1970, she and reporter Joseph Lelyveld earned the New York Times Publishers Award for their account of the life and death of a twelve-year-old heroin addict.
- Has won many awards, including the National Urban Coalition Award for Distinguished Urban Reporting and the Lincoln University Unity Award.
- As the first black woman admitted to the University of Georgia, she braved taunts, vandalism, and angry mobs before earning her diploma in 1963.
- She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
- Was editor-in-chief of the newspaper of Atlanta's Turner High School.
- Attended Wayne State University.
- Her father was a chaplain in the United States Army.
- In 1959 she, along with Hamilton Holmes, jointly sued the University of Georgia Athens Law School for racial discrimination in their admissions process.
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