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January 26th, 2010Massive Resistance in Virginia
September 20th, 2008
This summer, a statue honoring leaders of Virginia’s civil rights movement was dedicated on Capitol Square grounds in Richmond. One of the panels features Oliver W. Hill, an attorney who argued the landmark case of Brown vs. the Board of Education before the Supreme Court. Oliver Hill, Jr. (Virginia State University) shares memories of the change his father effected in Virginia over decades.
Also: Charles Ford (Norfolk State University) is studying the papers of some moderate civic leaders in Norfolk who publicly opposed Massive Resistance while privately sharing many of the goals of the segregationists. And: James Sweeney (Old Dominion University) shares revealing insights from the diary of an eminent Richmond moderate of the era, David J. Mays.
Massive Resistance – Related Media
September 14th, 2008
Governor Kaine, along with other special guests, speaks at the unveiling and dedication of the Civil Rights Memorial on the Virginia State Capitol grounds. View Photos
Massive Resitance – Companion Feature
September 14th, 2008The new civil rights memorial in Richmond honors the students, parents, community leaders and attorneys who risked everything in the struggle to gain equal rights for all Virginians. Nancy King, with the radio program “With Good Reason,” has a short profile of one of the men depicted on that bronze sculpture.
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You Sound Like You're Not From Around Here – companion feature
September 13th, 2008Contrary to what many believe, strong regional accents are still very much a part of the American cultural landscape. Reporter Nancy King found a Virginia linguist who is collecting and categorizing different accents.
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You Sound Like You're Not From Around Here…
September 13th, 2008Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and background, just based on their accent. Linguistics professor Steven Weinberger ( George Mason University) explains how and when we develop accents and how they affect our identity. Also: Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth century writings may seem impenetrable, with strange pronunciation and incomprehensible phrases . But English professor Alan Baragona (Virginia Military Institute) says the best way to approach Chaucer is to read it out loud and listen to the musicality of the words.
The Lost Patrol of Guadalcanal – companion feature
September 6th, 2008Sixty-six years ago, an ill-fated Marine patrol was gunned down during an intense WWII battle on the island of Guadalcanal. Their bodies were never found, despite many search efforts. This past summer, a Virginia forensics team went looking for their remains. Producer Nancy King picks up the story.
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The Lost Patrol of Guadalcanal
September 6th, 2008On the 12th of August 1942, Lt. Col. Frank Goettge and 24 Marines under his command landed in the dark on the wrong beach on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and came under withering fire from Japanese soldiers, killing Goettge and 21 of his men. Sixty-six years later, Cliff and Donna Boyd (Radford University) and Rhett Herman (Radford University) led a mission to use state of the art techniques to search for the missing in action Americans.
Also featured: Don Cunningham (Radford University) had a job that took him to Japan where he became fascinated with the culture of the Japanese samurais. He recently published Samurai Weapons: Tools of a Warrior, detailing the daily lives of the samurai and the weapons that made up the storied warriors’ arsenal.
Children Seen and Heard
August 30th, 2008Historians have long held that children of 17 th and 18 th century Europe were thought of as incomplete adults who were not yet worthy of love or compassion. However, historian Michael Galgano (James Madison University) says actually children were understood to be in a different stage of life, and they were celebrated and loved.
Also: Elementary school teachers may want to encourage a noisier classroom this fall. Adam Winsler’s (George Mason University) recent research shows that 5-year-olds perform better on motor tasks when they talk to themselves out loud than when they are silent.
Also: Infants come into the world equipped with an enormous capacity to trust, which is essential to rapid learning. Vikran Jaswal University of Virginia) says part of the challenge of childhood is learning when to question. Through his work with hundreds of young children he is looking for the origins of this struggle.
Children Seen and Heard – companion feature
August 30th, 2008Parents and teachers shouldn’t worry when pre-schoolers talk to themselves; in fact, they should encourage it. Producer Nancy King has more on chatty children.
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