20th century United States

Virginia

Civil Rights

Education

• Ph.D., US History, College of William & Mary
• M.A., Education, University of Mississippi
• M.A., US History, University of Montana
• B.A., History, College of William & Mary

Research Interests

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the history of Virginia, and the history of the United States since 1865. Professor Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including a class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a journey down the James River. He has delivered presentations at numerous conferences, including those sponsored by the Organization of American Historians, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, History of Education Society, Oral History Association, Southern Historical Association, and the Virginia Forum. He has received grants to fund his research and projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress, National Park Service, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [now Virginia Humanities], Virginia Historical Society [now Virginia Museum of History and Culture], Duke University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the College of William & Mary, among others. Daugherity is currently co-writing a book and co-producing a documentary film, with Jody L. Allen, Ph.D., on the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Charles C. Green v. New Kent County, Virginia.

Select Publications

• "With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education" (University of Arkansas Press, 2008), edited with Charles C. Bolton
• "Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia" (University of Virginia Press, 2016)
• "A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia," edited with Brian Grogan (University of Virginia Press, 2019)
• Brian J. Daugherity and Alyce Miller, “‘A New Era in Building’: African American Educational Activism in Goochland County, Virginia, 1911-1932,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 128, issue 1 (Spring 2020), 44-85. 
• Jody L. Allen and Brian J. Daugherity, “Recovering a ‘Lost’ Story Using Oral History: The United States Supreme Court’s Historic Green v. New Kent County, Virginia, Decision,” Oral History Review, vol. 3, issue 2 (June 2006), 25-45.

Awards

• VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 2023
• William M. E. Rachal Award, July 2021, for the best article published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2020
• Thatcher Prize for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Study, 2010

Links

• Brian Daugherty named recipient of Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s William M.E. Rachal Award
• History professor’s grant will bring teachers to VCU to learn about school desegregation
• Footprints on the James