Into the bright sunshine
By Freedman, Samuel G
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Into the bright sunshine :young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights

by
Freedman, Samuel G. author.
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Series
[Pivotal moments in American history]
Pivotal moments in American history
Subjects
Humphrey, Hubert H.(Hubert Horatio),1911-1978(DLC)n79026910
United States.Congress.SenateBiography.(WiMaSCL)4462718
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Publisher and Date
New York, NY, United States of America :Oxford University Press,[2023]
©2023
ISBN
9780197535196.
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0197535194.
Library of Congress Call Number
E748.H945F74 2023
Geographic Area Code
n-us---
Description
xv, 488 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations ;25 cm.
Contents (as listed on item)
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System Control Number
(OCoLC)1346846957
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"Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention, read simply, '30 years ago--here.' In this place, at that time, twenty-nine years earlier to be precise, he had made history. From the dais now, Humphrey beheld five thousand impending graduates, an ebony sea of gowns and mortarboards, broken by one iconoclast in a homemade crown, two in ribboned bonnets, and another whose headgear bore the masking-tape message HI MA PA. In the horseshoe curve of the arena's double balcony loomed eight thousand parents and siblings, children, and friends. Wearing shirtsleeves and cotton shifts amid the stale heat, they looked like pale confetti from where Humphrey stood, and their flash cameras flickered away, a constellation of pinpricks."--Provided by publisher.
Alternative TitleYoung Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights
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