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Hubert Humphrey and Civil Rights: Samuel G. Freedman
Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. We dive into Humphrey's activism in the proto civil rights movement and his role to include civil rights in Democratic Party platform in 1948.
Hubert Humphrey was a coalition builder. After his decisive win for mayor of Minneapolis, he put together a civil rights and human rights agenda that put Minneapolis on the national map as an example of what was best in America. He also engaged…
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