Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry.

We live in dangerous times.

Zellets on the Extreme Right are working to ban books which actively teach our

history particularly around civil rights and racial justice.

And that's why it's so important to remember and share our history on these issues.

Our guest today is Samuel Friedman.

Samuel is a journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize finalist.

His new book, Into the Bright Sunshine, Young Hubert Humphrey in the Fight for Civil Rights, is now available.

All my life, I loved it in my art, Hubert Humphrey.

He believed that public service was a novel endeavor.

He believed that his adversaries need not be his enemies.

We simply kept the face up to this question.

Are we as a nation now ready to guarantee equal protection of the laws as declared in our Constitution?

To every American regardless of his race, his color, or his dreams?

The Southern Revolt against President Truman reaches its climax at Birmingham under the state's right banner.

Venurable Alfalfa Bill Murray comes out of retirement to join in the protest against the President Civil Rights program.

I face my entire candidacy on the belief which comes in the very depths of my soul,

which comes from basic religious conviction that the American people will stand up,

that they will stand up for justice and fair play.

I'm Samuel Friedman, professor of journalism at Columbia University.

Now former New York Times reporter and columnist, and he also has ten books,

my most recent one, Into the Bright Sunshine, is about Hubert Humphrey's early life and career,

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