{"id":514,"date":"2012-04-23T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/23\/book-by-brown-nagin-receives-another-award\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:06:40","slug":"book-by-brown-nagin-receives-another-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/book-by-brown-nagin-receives-another-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown-Nagin book receives another award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2629\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tomiko-brown-nagin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2629 lazyload\" title=\"tomiko-brown-nagin\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tomiko-brown-nagin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"173\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 132px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 132\/173;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomiko Brown-Nagin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new book by 1992 Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin, <em>Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>, has received the 2012 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians.\u00a0 The award is given annually for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Brown-Nagin, who graduated from Furman with a degree in history, was also awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize by Columbia University in recognition of her book.<\/p>\n<p>A leading expert on legal history, constitutional law and civil rights, Brown-Nagin currently teaches law and history at the University of Virginia.\u00a0 She will join the Harvard Law School faculty this summer as a tenured Professor of Law , and will also serve as an affiliate of the History Department in Harvard \u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0 She holds a doctorate in history from Duke University and a law degree from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new book by 1992 Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin, <em>Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>, has received the 2012 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians. The award is given annually for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle. Brown-Nagin was also awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize by Columbia University in recognition of her book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}