Samuel G. Freedman

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Gabriela Bhaskar

Author Samuel Freedman and his latest book.

Samuel Freedman is the author of "Into the Bright Sunshine: Hubert Humphrey and the Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle of the 1940s."

Four-and-a-half decades after his death in 1978, Hubert Humphrey is known by most for losing to Richard Nixon in the 1968 campaign for president (following the assassination of fellow candidate Robert Kennedy), or perhaps for his support of the Vietnam War as vice president for LBJ. But before all that, Humphrey was known as one of the Democratic Party’s most progressive members in the U.S. Senate. Author Samuel Freedman examines Humphrey’s early history in the new book Into the Bright Sunshine: Hubert Humphrey and the Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle of the 1940s; Freedman will discuss the book with UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Kathryn McGarr. A book signing and reception follows. Register at go.wisc.edu/820p51.

media release: Samuel G. Freedman: “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

Monday, November 13

Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium (816 State Street)

5-6 PM, presentation

6-7 PM, reception and book signing

Journalist and author Samuel Freedman, a UW-Madison alumnus, tells the dramatic story of young Hubert Humphrey, his allies, and his adversaries in the battle for a better nation in his new book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Hubert Humphrey and the Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle of the 1940s. Professor Kathryn McGarr of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication joins him to discuss the complex implications of this struggle that continue to plague us today.

The Civil Rights Movement did not begin with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in the mid-1950s. Those landmarks actually followed a decade of fervent, urgent activism against both racism and antisemitism in America during the 1940s. And no individual was more integral to those efforts than Hubert Humphrey – then the youthful mayor of Minneapolis and a rising star in the Democratic Party.

This event will be recorded but not livestreamed

R.S.V.P. for event reminder and link to recording available after the event: https://go.wisc.edu/820p51

In shared sponsorship with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Center for Campus History, the Center for Journalism Ethics, and the Department of History.