As Hubert Humphrey, the 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, led the Minnesota delegation to the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, his primary goal was to help persuade the Democratic ...

MINNEAPOLIS — This month marks the 75th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey's bold move to push fellow Democrats to embrace civil rights, a pivotal moment in American political history detailed in ...

The 1948 Democratic National Convention was a pivotal moment in Hubert Humphrey's life as he used a major stage to try and shift his party on an issue that would define his political career. The DFL ...

Mr. Freedman is the author of “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.” On the torrid afternoon of July 6, 1948, Hubert Humphrey departed one kind of inferno to ...

Though the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its roots to Hubert Humphrey's speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, advocating for ...