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. she served as a law clerk to the honorable jane roth of the united states court of appeals for the third circuit and to the honorable robert l. carter of the united states district court for the southern district of new york. at uva, profession brown teaches constitutional law, constitutional and social history and education law. she's considered one of the leading young legal historians and has written widely in the areas of legal history, education law, and the supreme court's equal 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 tomiko brown-nagin's first book, courage of dissent, the long history o

. >> we're talking with professor tomiko brown nagin at festival of the book in march 2011. what is your day job? >> i'm a law professor and history professor at the university of virginia, a job that i enjoy very much. >> what do you teach? >> i teach constitutional law, constitutional history, and i teach a course on education law and policy. >> how long have you been doing that? >> at the university of virginia? for five years. before teaching at uva, i taught at washington university in st. louis for two years. >> what's your education? you were editor of yale law review, i believe? >> yeah, that's right. the yale law journal. i was an editor of that journal, so i attended yale law school. i also got a ph.d. in history from duke university and prior to that i got an undergraduate degree in history. >> where did you grow up, and what did your parents do? >> right. i grew up in a small town in south carolina, greenwood it's called. my parents, well, like ethel may matthews parents, my father was once a sharecropper. he later on worked in a factory, both of my parents atten

. >> host: we have been talking with tomiko brown-nagin author of this book, "courage to dissent: atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement." .. >> we're happy to have with us ha-joon chang tonight. he teaches at the faculty of economics at the university of cambridge. his books include the best selling "bad samaritans: the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism." is also the recipient of two very prestigious awards, 2003 prize and the 2005 prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought. we're happy to celebrate tonight 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism. his new book out on bloomsbury books which is kind of a forensic study of our ideas about capital. it and to equip the reader with an understanding of how global capitalism works and doesn't work. professor chang offers an appraisal and many fresh insights into how to shift from a more plutocratic to humane economic agenda. so please join us and giving him a very warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you, peter, for that very kind introduction. yes, i'm delighted to be here. it's one of tho

. >> we have been talking with tomiko brown-nagin, author of this book, courage to dissent, atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement. >> up next vincent cianci recounts his 20 year term as mayor in providence rhode island. he spent five years in a federal prison on racketeering and conspiracy charges. this is about an hour and a half. >> good evening everyone. thanks for coming to books on the square. our honored guest tonight was mayor of providence from 1975 to 1984 and began from 1991 to 2002, when providence became the renaissance city. he is currently host of "the buddy cianci show" on wpro and now the author of the new book, "politics and pasta" how i prosecuted mobsters, rebuilt a dying city, dined with sinatra, spent five years in a federally funded gated community and lived to tell the tale. ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present day are then sent that he cianci. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you all very much for coming. thank you. i have actually been introduced many different ways. what i think about introductions i re

. >> tomiko brown-nagin is the author of "courage to dissent. " professor, what was the importance of atlanta in the civil rights movement? >> guest: right. well, atlanta has not been discussed very often in the civil rights movement, although it was the home to several national civil rights organizations and the place that i wanted to explore because i thought that it would be a success story. it's usually considered of interest only pause it was the home -- only because it was the home of martin luther king jr. but i wanted to the explore atlanta because i knew that it was a home to a sizable african-american middle class, many black colleges, and i thought that in part because the white fathers always considered it a place of racial moderation, that it would be a good place from which to explore dynamics in the civil rights movement. >> host: what did you find? was it a success story? >> guest: well n some ways it was a success story including for many members of the black middle class who came of age after the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s. but the story that i te