{"id":92,"date":"2009-03-23T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:30:33","slug":"the-last-best-hope-of-earth-american-democracy-and-the-right-to-vote-in-historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/23\/the-last-best-hope-of-earth-american-democracy-and-the-right-to-vote-in-historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Last Best Hope of Earth?  American Democracy and the Right to Vote in Historical Perspective.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/events\/sackler\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/fairclough.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Adam Fairclough\" width=\"324\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/03\/fairclough.jpg 324w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/03\/fairclough-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nProfessor Adam Fairclough, the Sackler Chair in U.S. History at Leiden University in the Netherlands will be giving the Spring 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights on <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 31, 2009<br \/>\n4:00pm, Konover Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Fairclough&#8217;s first book, <em>To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr<\/em>. (1987) won an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. <em>Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana <\/em>, 1915-1972 (1995) was the recipient of the Louisiana Literary Award, the L. Kemper Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history, and the Lillian Smith Book Award of the Southern Regional Council. His most recent book, <em>A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South <\/em>won the 2008 Outstanding Book Award of the History of Education Society <\/p>\n<p>Join us as we welcome one of the leading scholars in the study of the American Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Adam Fairclough, the Sackler Chair in U.S. History at Leiden University in the Netherlands will be giving the Spring 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:00pm, Konover Auditorium Professor Fairclough&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/23\/the-last-best-hope-of-earth-american-democracy-and-the-right-to-vote-in-historical-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}