this is about 15 minutes. >> the agitator's daughter is the name of the book, and sheryll cashin is the author, she's also a professor of law here at georgetown university. who's the agitator? >> my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who may he rest in peace, he just passed this last, past year, yeah. >> what kind of an agitator was he? >> well, um, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace and the dixiecrats. and despite being a dentist and a two-time valedictorian, his advocation was agitation, and he poured hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money -- this is in the '60s, mind you, '60s and early '70s -- into this political party so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and that the hundreds of thousands of newly-registered black voters would have people to vote for. could not just vote, but also run for office. and so that was his life's work, and he was very much committed to recapturing the greatness of african-americans in the terms of political participat

this is about 15 minutes. >> the agitators daughter is the name of the book and sheryll cashin city author and she is a professor of law at georgetown university. professor subbyte who is the agitator? >> my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who just passed this last year. >> what kind of an agitator was he? >> well, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace, the dixiecrat and despite he was two-time valedictorian, his ab mentation was -- and this was in the 60's mind you, and early 70's into his political party, so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and the hundreds of thousands of newly registered by voters would have people to vote for. not just vote but run for office and so that was his life's work and he was very much committed to read capturing the greatness of african-americans in terms of the political participation and very steeped in the arab reconstruction. his grandfather had been a reconstruction legislator and he grew up hearing about his grandfather, gra