Bloustein Lecture – Antisemitism in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesHubert Humphrey was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 and, in just three years, transformed it from being nationally notorious for its antisemitism and anti-Black racism to being nationally acclaimed for its concrete progress on civil rights. How Humphrey accomplished what he did is both dramatic as a part of history and instructive amid the […]