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How Civil Rights Won the White House: Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, A. Philip Randolph and the Breakthrough of 1948
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).
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