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Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.
Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.
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Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality
The convention was a battle between the forces of inclusive, expansive democracy and those espousing a narrower, hostile concept of who fully belonged to America.
On this day in 1948, the Mississippi delegation stormed out of the Democratic convention when it adopted a civil rights platform.