Into the Bright Sunshine - Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, 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.

List of contents

• Prologue: Destiny's Crosshairs (1977)


• Chapter One: Beyond the Meridian (1922-1931)


• Chapter Two: Horse-high, Hog-tight, Bull-strong (1931-1936)


• Chapter Three: A Path Lit by Women (1933-1939)


• Chapter Four: The Silken Curtain and the Silver Shirt (1934-1939)


• Chapter Five: The Jim Crow Car (1939-1940)


• Chapter Six: Voice and Vessel (1941-1945)


• Chapter Seven: An Inventory of the Soul (1945-1947)


• Chapter Eight: The City of Brotherly Strife (Spring and Summer 1948)


• Chapter Nine: "A Drowning Man Wants to be Saved" (Fall 1948)


• Epilogue: Unfinished Business (1965-2020)

About the author

Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning professor, columnist, and author of nine acclaimed books.

Freedman was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1981 through 1987. From 2004 through 2008, he wrote the paper's "On Education" column, winning first prize in the Education Writers Association's annual competition in 2005. From 2006 through 2016, Freedman wrote the "On Religion" column, receiving the Goldziher Prize for Journalists in 2017 for a series of columns about Muslim-Americans that had been published over the preceding six years.

As a professor of journalism at Columbia University, Freedman has been named the nation's outstanding journalism educator by the Society of Professional Journalists and received Columbia's coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Summary

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, 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.

Additional text

Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Samuel G. Freedman, Samuel G. (Professor of Journalism Freedman, Freedman Samuel G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2023
• EAN: 9780197535196
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753519-6
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Human Rights, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: historical, political and military