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Karen L. Parker the first African-American woman undergraduate to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was born in Salisbury North Carolina and grew up in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Parker worked for the Winston-Salem Journal before attending UNC-Chapel Hill. She majored in journalism was elected vice-president of the UNC Press Club and served as editor of the UNC Journalist the School of Journalism’s newspaper in 1964.