Jim-- Please do tell me that you will be attending Warren's conference on Virginia history this Spring in Winchester? I am very much looking forward to meeting you in person. Let's be sure to grab a beer, or maybe lunch? Warm regards, Kevin ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:25:24 -0500 >From: James Hershman <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Great/Important Virginian >To: [log in to unmask] > >Kevin, > >I spent time with Hill and S.W. Tucker when I was doing research in the >early 1970s. They impressed me greatly, I wish that both of them could >have been governors of Virginia. Thanks for your kind words and the >answer is that I am going to get to work on an update of " A Rumbling in >the Museum" just as soon as I can afford to cut my time back with the >Government Affairs Institute at GU. Should be a year or so, can't wait, >I've been wanting to write. I've done little bios of Almond, Boothe, >Judge Bryan, Stuart Carter, and Ruth Charity for Brent Tarter's >Dictionary of Va Biography. >All Best, >Jim Hershman >[log in to unmask] wrote: > >>Jim-- >> >>This is great. So now for the $24,000 question: Is there a >>good biography of him? And if not, when can I expect to read >>yours! >> >>I don't want to sidetrack this discussion, so I will post my >>followup question in a new thread. >> >>Best, >>Kevin >> >>---- Original message ---- >> >> >>>Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:15:53 -0500 >>>From: James Hershman <[log in to unmask]> >>>Subject: Re: Great/Important Virginian >>>To: [log in to unmask] >>> >>>Brent, >>> >>>You know I've always felt that Oliver W. Hill was the >>> >>> >>greatest Virginian >> >> >>>of the 20th century. His whole career of civil rights >>> >>> >>advocacy, in law >> >> >>>and politics, running from the 1930s to the 1990s is a great >>> >>> >>record. He >> >> >>>was 2nd in the law class to his better known classmate, Thurgood >>>Marshall; led the school equalization campaign; served in >>> >>> >>WWII; elected >> >> >>>to the Richmond City Council in 1948; handled the Prince >>> >>> >>Edward County >> >> >>>School case; stood up in the face of Massive Resistance at a >>> >>> >>time when >> >> >>>all the forces of white Virginia were arrayed against him. >>> >>> >>For his >> >> >>>courage, for his choice of staying to fight in Virginia when >>> >>> >>the path of >> >> >>>least resistance said go to a northern city, for what he >>> >>> >>stood for and >> >> >>>what he accomplished in helping free Virginia from the hold >>> >>> >>of the >> >> >>>racial caste system, Hill deserves all the honors and thanks >>> >>> >>a grateful >> >> >>>commonwealth could bestow. So, that's my pick. >>> >>>Jim Hershman >>> >>> >>Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D. >>Department of History >>James Madison University >> >>To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >>at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> > > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D. Department of History James Madison University To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html