Into the bright sunshine : young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights /
Freedman, Samuel G.,
Into the bright sunshine : young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights / Samuel G. Freedman. - 1 online resource (xv, 488 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). - Pivotal moments in American history Oxford scholarship online . - Pivotal moments in American history. Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, here is a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president - the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate - but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. Even under Franklin Roosevelt, the party had dodged the issue in order to keep a bloc of Southern segregationists - the so-called Dixiecrats - in the New Deal coalition.
9780197677087 No price
10.1093/oso/9780197535196.001.0001 doi
Humphrey, Hubert H. 1911-1978.
Politicians--United States.
Civil rights--United States.
History.
History of the Americas.
E748
973.918092
Into the bright sunshine : young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights / Samuel G. Freedman. - 1 online resource (xv, 488 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). - Pivotal moments in American history Oxford scholarship online . - Pivotal moments in American history. Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, here is a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president - the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate - but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. Even under Franklin Roosevelt, the party had dodged the issue in order to keep a bloc of Southern segregationists - the so-called Dixiecrats - in the New Deal coalition.
9780197677087 No price
10.1093/oso/9780197535196.001.0001 doi
Humphrey, Hubert H. 1911-1978.
Politicians--United States.
Civil rights--United States.
History.
History of the Americas.
E748
973.918092