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02724aam a2200397 i 4500 001 E7D925CA35B011EEA7DDB3DB4DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230808010040 008 221007t20232023nyua e b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9780197535196 020 $a 0197535194 035 $a (OCoLC)1346846957 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d IOU $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 973.923/092 $2 23/eng/20230712 100 1 $a Freedman, Samuel G., $e author. $9 30056 245 10 $a Into the bright sunshine : $b young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights / $c Samuel G. Freedman. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xv, 488 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Pivotal moments in American history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention, read simply, "30 years ago - Here." In this place, at that time, twenty-nine years earlier to be precise, he had made history. From the dais now, Humphrey beheld five thousand impending graduates, an ebony sea of gowns and mortarboards, broken by one iconoclast in a homemade crown, two in ribboned bonnets, and another whose headgear bore the masking-tape message HI MA PA. In the horseshoe curve of the arena's double balcony loomed eight thousand parents and siblings, children, and friends. Wearing shirtsleeves and cotton shifts amid the stale heat, they looked like pale confetti from where Humphrey stood, and their flash cameras flickered away, a constellation of pinpricks"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Humphrey, Hubert H. $q (Hubert Horatio), $d 1911-1978. $9 7111 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. $9 80845 650 0 $a Civil rights $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Pivotal moments in American history. $9 57255 941 $a 7 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012628.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024558.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025908.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025015439.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231003012012.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230902013046.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230808010128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E7D925CA35B011EEA7DDB3DB4DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search