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Many know Hubert Humphrey as a man whose public life ended in disgrace\u2014as the man who lost his bearings during the Vietnam War and then lost the presidency to Richard Nixon. \nBut decades before the Vietnam War or his presidential run, Humphrey was known as a trailblazing statesman who electrified the nation through an impassioned speech in support of civil rights at the July 1948 Democratic National Convention. \nUrging the delegates to \u201cget out of the shadow of state\u2019s rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights,\u201d Humphrey\u2014then a 37-yearold mayor of Minneapolis\u2014put everything on the line, rhetorically and politically, to move the party and the country forward. To the surprise of many, including Humphrey himself, the democratic delegates adopted a meaningful civil rights plank. With no choice but to run on it, President Truman desegregated the armed forces and soon thereafter won reelection against the frontrunner Thomas Dewey, a victory due in part to an unprecedented surge of Black voters. \nPublished on the 75th anniversary of that pivotal 1948 speech, Samuel G. Freedman\u2019s July 2023 Into the \nBright Sunshine examines the politician\u2019s early career, when his efforts to promote racial justice not only \ntransformed the Democratic Party but the nation as well. Freedman explores the journey of Humphrey\u2019s \nlife from a remote, all-white hamlet in South Dakota to the mayoralty of Minneapolis as he tackles its \nnotorious racism and anti-Semitism to his role as a national champion of multiracial democracy. His allies \nin that struggle include a Black newspaper publisher, a Jewish attorney, and a professor who had fled \nNazi Germany. And his adversaries are the white supremacists, Christian Nationalists, and America \nFirsters of mid-century America\u2014one of whom tries to assassinate him.\nCelebrating one of the overlooked landmarks of civil rights history, Freedman illuminates the early life \nand enduring legacy of the man who helped bring it about.\nSamuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, journalist, and educator. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has won the National Jewish Book Award and the New York Public Library\u2019s Helen Bernstein Award. His columns for the New York Times about education and religion have received national prizes. He is a professor at Columbia University, and has been named the nation\u2019s Outstanding Journalism Educator by the Society of Professional Journalists.

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