Into the bright sunshine

• Verfasst von: Freedman, Samuel G. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Into the bright sunshine
• Titelzusatz: young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights
• Verf.angabe: Samuel G. Freedman
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource (xv, 488 pages)
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white, and colour).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Pivotal moments in American history
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767708-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197535196.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: History of the Americas
• K10plus-PPN: 1851196013
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, here is a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president - the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate - but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. Even under Franklin Roosevelt, the party had dodged the issue in order to keep a bloc of Southern segregationists - the so-called Dixiecrats - in the New Deal coalition.