75 years ago today, Hubert Humphrey delivered a historic speech on civil rights that changed the Democratic Party and the future of our nation. In 1948, President Truman was running for re-election. Truman had urged Congress to pass civil rights legislation, but he wanted to de-emphasize the issue going into the 1948 Democratic Convention. Truman did not want civil rights to divide the party. Meanwhile, liberals like Humphrey were fighting for the Democratic Party to include a strong civil right
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#TBT This month in 1948 Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey electrified the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia with a speech on civil rights. For several years Humphrey had been combating discrimination in the Mill City by focusing on the city's reputation as being the most anti-Semitic city in America. Jews in Minneapolis couldn't even join the AAA at the time. Here's a clip about Humphrey's landmark convention speech from a 1990s TPT documentary narrated by historian Hy Berman. | Alm
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On the last day of the 1948 Democratic National Convention, then little-known Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey spoke in support of the minority resolution on civil rights. The Platform Committee had defeated the minority resolution the night before. Humphrey spoke for only eight minutes, but his speech turned the tide and the convention delegates voted to support the course proposed by Humphrey. According to historian Carl Solberg, Humphrey's speech "ushered in the second era of redressing r
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