Hubert Humphrey Takes Center Stage (1948) w/ Samuel G Freedman

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s July 13th. Only July 14th, 1948, at the Democratic National Convention, a young Hubert Humphrey took the stage and implored his party to embrace the cause of civil rights.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Samuel G Freedman of Columbia University to discuss why Humphrey’s speech sent such a shockwave through the party — and ultimately convinced it to adopt a pro-civil rights plank heading into that election.

Freedman’s new book about Humphrey is called Into The Bright Sunshine.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This day, July 14, 1948, Hubert Humphrey walks up to the podium at the Democratic National Convention
0:18.0	and gave a speech that helped change America forever.
0:21.6	At this point, Humphrey was the mayor of Minneapolis and he would
0:24.1	go on of course to be vice president but at this stage he was young I'd say
0:27.8	relatively low profile and in this moment he was on stage and began to forcefully push the Democratic Party to
0:34.3	embrace the cause of civil rights. As he put it it was time to quote get out of the
0:39.6	shadow of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.
0:45.4	So let's talk about that Humphrey speech, Humphrey himself, and how those remarks did indeed push the
0:49.4	party to adopt a civil rights plank at that convention.
0:52.8	Here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt
0:55.0	and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
0:56.9	Hello there.
0:57.9	Hello, Jody.
0:58.9	Hey there.
0:59.9	And our special guest for this episode
1:01.4	is Samuel G. Friedman, author and professor at
1:04.5	Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He has written many many books and the new one
1:08.0	which we just learned was eight years in the making, but the new one is
1:11.2	into the bright sunshine, young
1:13.0	Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights.
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