34th Annual Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture Series
“Into the Bright Sunshine: Hubert Humphrey and the Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle of the 1940s”
presented by Samuel G. Freedman
About the Lecture
Samuel G. Freedman 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.
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.
About the Series
The annual series’ aim is to bring together the worlds of academic exploration and practical politics to illuminate discussion of the broader principles and ideas of representative government. Such a synthesis is true to the spirit of the lecture’s honorees – John C. Bollens, John C. Ries, and Marvin Hoffenberg – former distinguished professors in UCLA’s Department of Political Science.
