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The Democratic Turn Toward Civil Rights
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The Democratic Turn Toward Civil Rights

Audio of my conversation with Professor Samuel G. Freedman about Hubert Humphrey, policing, and a landscape-altering speech from 75 years ago
Ben Tumin
Jul 07, 2023
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Professor Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning writer, a professor at Columbia, and a former columnist for The New York Times. Professor Freedman’s book centers on a famous speech in defense of civil rights by Hubert Humphrey, a Minnesota politician and later Vice President under LBJ. The 75th anniversary of Humphrey’s speech, which altered the trajec…

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