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"Even colleagues who would be reasonably collegial inside The Post if they saw me on the street they would pretend they didn't know me," Gilliam, now 82, told"GMA." James Meredith had been denied admission to the university because he was black. In response, he filed a lawsuit with the NAACP against the university.
Gilliam left The Post for a few years to raise her family, but returned to the paper as an editor for the Style section. She then went on to be a columnist for the metro section for about 19 years. A friend told her about an anonymous free fellowship that offered a counseling program for compulsive eaters. She decided to go and work through her feelings and eating issues.
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