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minnesota (Dfl)   On July 14, 1948, a young senator from Minnesota stood on the floor of the Democratic National Convention and challenged his party to make an ambitious commitment to the cause of civil rights, declaring it to be “the issue of the 20th century.” Sixteen years later after Hubert Humphrey’s speech, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law—and Humphrey himself was elected vice president of the United States. But in the summer of 1967, another young senator from Minnesota—chosen to fill Humphrey’s seat—invited a young navy lieutenant named Carlos Campbell to testify before the Senate Banking Committee’s subcommittee on housing. After flying recon missions during the Cold War, Lt. Campbell had been assigned to the Pentagon, but when he and his wife looked for apartments in Arlington, they found that vacancies kept disappearing as soon as landlords realized the Campbells were Black.

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