TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freedman,Samuel G.
TI  - Into the bright sunshine: young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights 
T2  - Pivotal moments in American history
SN  - 9780197677087
AV  - E748 
U1  - 973.918092 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Humphrey, Hubert H.
KW  - Politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535196.001.0001
ER  -