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
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileSamuel 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 (2023, Oxford University Press), 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.
Date posted
Oct 7, 2024
Date updated
Oct 15, 2024