{"id":953,"date":"2012-12-03T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/03\/more-awards-for-tomiko-brown-nagin\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:20:18","slug":"more-awards-for-tomiko-brown-nagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/more-awards-for-tomiko-brown-nagin\/","title":{"rendered":"More awards for Tomiko Brown-Nagin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brown-nagin-bookcover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5022 lazyload\" title=\"brown-nagin-bookcover\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brown-nagin-bookcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"269\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 177px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 177\/269;\" \/><\/a>Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been awarded the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Foundation Nonfiction Prize for her recent book, <em>Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation awards prizes each year for fiction, nonfiction and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Brown-Nagin, who graduated from Furman in 1992 with a degree in history, is a member of the Harvard Law School faculty and also teaches history in Harvard\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courage to Dissent<\/em> has also received the 2012 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University and the 2012 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurston\/Wright Foundation, based in Washington, was created in 1990.\u00a0 Its mission is to discover and encourage writers of African descent and to ensure the survival of literature by black writers.<\/p>\n<p>A leading expert on legal history, constitutional law and civil rights, Brown-Nagin holds a doctorate in history from Duke University and a law degree from Yale Law School.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/writers-oyeyemi-shockley-and-brown-nagin-take-home-hurstonwright-prizes\/2012\/12\/02\/fe43f636-3cac-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html?wpmk=MK0000200\">Read the article in <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been awarded the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Foundation Nonfiction Prize for her recent book,\u00a0<em>Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>.\u00a0Brown-Nagin, who graduated from Furman in 1992 with a degree in history, is a member of the Harvard Law School faculty and also teaches history in Harvard\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A report on the awards appeared in the Books section of <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}