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How Civil Rights Won the White House: Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, A. Philip Randolph and the Breakthrough of 1948
October 28, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Samuel G. Freedman (Columbia University) discusses his latest project, a riveting and revisionist account of the young Hubert Humphrey’s fight to embed Civil Rights in the Democratic Party platform in 1948 detailed in his latest book, Into the Bright Sunshine (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Freedman serves as an esteemed and award winning professor of journalism at Columbia University. In his decades-long career at the New York Times he wrote as a staff reporter and contributed award-winning journalism to the “On Education” and “On Religion” columns.
Event Details:
Date: October 28th, 2024
Time: 2 PM to 3:30 PM Central Time
Location: Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 153
Sponsored By: The Departments of History, Political Science, and Black Studies; the Jewish Studies program; the Institute for the Humanities; the Great Cities Institute; and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
