democratic bastion. lately it seems like neither. from reconstruction through 1948 sla have a voted for the democrats in the presidential election every year but once. in 1952 it flipped. it went to the republican presidential candidate every year since 1964. what happened in 1952? well, nafs the culmination of years, the growing distance between the democratic presidential candidates and petition members in virginia. a group of that headed by then harry byrd, former governor, who spent nearly 50 years in virginia politics. the growing rift between himself and president truman, bird gave his approval to the republican dwight eisenhower, giving democrats the okay to support him. ike won the state and the president. then it was 1970 lynn holt became the first republican governor. william scott became have virginia s first republican senator in that time.
parents. hillary clinton s next chapter. there s no read to read in between the lines anymore on her future, and if you are not ready for the book bonanza, you should probably start your summer vacation early. good morning from washington. it s monday, june 9th, 2014. this is the daily rundown. all that, plus tdr 50 heads to virginia this week ahead. why the old dominion is a new battleground. let s get to my first read of the morning right here on your 2014 election headquarters. the real fight for the soul of the republican party is happening in the south. less than 24 hours from now voters in two more southern states, south carolina and virginia, go to the polls. south carolina senator lindsey gram and eric cantor haven t exactly been shy about criticizing the president. you wouldn t mistake either one of them for an arlen specter or susan collins, and yet their conservative credentials are being challenged? yes, they have to contend with a washington establishment label.
supreme court people protection jurisprudence. her scholarship has appeared in some of the foremost law journals within the legal academy. in february of this year oxford university press published professor brown-nagin s first book, courage to dissent: atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement your asocial legal history about lawyers, courts and community based activism during the civil rights era. this highly anticipated work has already garnered widespread acclaim. most notably for members of our community, the book features some of the lawyers who are integral players in the legal odyssey that ultimately led to the desegregation of the university of georgia. this will be the subject of her talk today. if you have questions at the end of her talk, please use a microphone stand at the front to ask the question. and at this time please join me in welcoming professor tomiko brown-nagin. [applause] good afternoon. thank you so much for that kind introductio
searchable database to find links. a brand new look and feel. a great way to watch and enjoy authors and books. what are you reading this summer? .. because of his role in the legal history of the movement, civil rights movement, many, many books that are written about the legal history of the movement revolve around thurgood marshall and his conception of equality. well, my book is different. it begins with the question of what would the legal history of the civil rights movement look like if the work of thurgood marshall and the work of the supreme court justices weren t so central to the story? what would we see? who would we see? and my book answers that question with this observation. if we move those familiar persons and institutions away from the center of analysis, we can see unsung lawyers and activists at the local level. people who contributed a lot to the social and legal world that we live in today. people who sometimes disagreed with thurgood marshall and hi
our military is there. they are there to help. they are there to do, you know, fundamentally humanitarian things and that s a mission that they ve embraced. it s a rewarding mission. but it s one that also has some unintended consequences. so i wanted to at least share that there s a little bit of an ironic juxtaposition. armed humanitarians is the name of the book subtitled the rise of the nation builders. author is nathan hodge. next tomiko brown-nagin looks at the civil rights movement in atlanta and the differences between the activists who participated in it over three decades. this is a little over an hour. welcome. it is my great pleasure to introduce tomiko brown-nagin, the justice thurgood marshall school of law and professor of history in virginia. professor tomiko brown-nagin holds a ph.d. from duke university and a law degree from yale university where she was an editor of the yale law journal. she received her b.a. summa cum laude from berman university. sh