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Good morning again, everyone. Now we continue our WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things.

It's thing number 14, 100 years of memorable speech clips from Democratic conventions.

We did the same thing with Republican convention speeches.

You may remember during their week last month. And if you were

listening yesterday, you heard a sample from one of those most memorable speeches, the one at the

1948 Democratic Convention by the mayor of Minneapolis at the time, Hubert Humphrey. To make a

segue into today's 100 Things episode.

Let's hear one more clip from that time that Humphrey tried to wake his party up about civil rights.

The old audio on this is very scratchy, but worth putting up with it, it runs 30 seconds.

My good friends, I asked my party, I asked the Democratic Party to march down the high road

of progressive democracy.

I asked this convention, I ask this convention to say in unmistakable terms that we proudly

hail and we courageously support our president and leader,

Terry Truman, and his great fights for civil rights in America.

Hubert Humphrey in 1948, 20 years before he was the nominee for president,

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