Loading...
Welcome
Sign up
Login
Browse Books
Deals
VIP
0
Loading...
Play Sample
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Series:
Part of Pivotal Moments in American History
Written by:
Samuel G. Freedman
Narrated by:
Mike Lenz
Unabridged Audiobook
Play Free
Add to Cart - $24.99
Remove from Cart
Give as a gift
Ratings
Book
Narrator
Release Date
July 2023
Duration
17 hours 9 minutes
Summary
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.
On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium. Defying Truman's own desire to occupy the middle ground, Humphrey urged the delegates to 'get out of the shadow of state's rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.' Humphrey's speech put everything on the line, rhetorically and politically, to move the party, and the country, forward.
To the surprise of many, including Humphrey himself, the delegates voted to adopt a meaningful civil-rights plank. With no choice but to run on it, Truman seized the opportunity it offered, desegregating the armed forces and in November upsetting the frontrunner Thomas Dewey, a victory due in part to an unprecedented surge of Black voters. The outcome of that week in July 1948-which marks its seventy-fifth anniversary as this book is published-shapes American politics to this day.
Browse By Category
Biography & Memoir
>
Law & Politics
Non-Fiction
>
Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Non-Fiction
>
Social Science
1 book added to cart
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young H...
Samuel G. Freedman
Subtotal
$24.99
View Cart
Continue Browsing
~~title~~
~~carousel-body~~
Back
Next
~~book-title~~
By: ~~author-single-string~~
~~tag-text~~
© Copyright 2011 - 2024 Storytel Audiobooks USA LLC. All Rights Reserved.