Dr. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, professor of law at Harvard University, visited the UAB campus to discuss leadership in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond with a number of students and faculty.

Brown-Nagin's talk is part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Civil Rights Commemorative series as well as 50 Years Forward, the ongoing 50th anniversary commemoration of the seminal events of the US Civil Rights Movement.

Brown-Nagin is the author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, which examines "the activism of visionaries — both well-known legal figures and unsung citizens — from across the ideological spectrum who sought something different from, or more complicated than, 'integration.'" The book, published by Oxford University Press, won the 2012 Bancroft Prize in US History, the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award for Non-Fiction, and four other major prizes.

Brown-Nagin is a graduate of Yale University Law School and has a doctorate in history from Duke University.

While here, she sat down with Dr. Theodore Foster to discuss her book and leaders (known and unknown) of the Civil Rights Movement.