Hubert Humphrey 1948 Civil Rights Speech

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Number 66 on the Top 100 Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century List - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Hubert Humphrey gave this speech supporting civil rights, causing 35 delegates from Mississippi and Alabama to walk out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention. Humphrey urged the Democratic Party to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights". When President Truman endorsed this civil rights plank, governor of South Carolina Strom Thurmond helped organize the walkout of delegates into a separate party. The party Thurmond formed was called the "Dixiecrats" and it's racist slogan was "Segregation Forever!".

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Hubert Humphrey 1948 Civil Rights Speech

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  • Nonsense.

    Nonsense.

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  • Elvis and Sinatra?

    Elvis and Sinatra?

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  • Keep an eye on the ...

    Keep an eye on the Senate to change things. We just saw this with the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act. The Senate blocked civil rights for eight decades, and it took Lyndon Johnson to push through the first act in 1957. He knew it set up later bills, such as the ones in 1964 and 1965.
    Note that civil rights included religion (ironic to the Religious Reich), because Jews -- especially in Minneapolis -- faced discrimination as well.
    Next: Don't Ask, Don't Tell the Truth.

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  • This is one of the ...

    This is one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard in my life.

    Just goes to show that nothing in this country would ever have changed without the help of good hearted white people...

    Hubert Humphrey
    Harry Truman
    Elvis
    Sinatra
    and so on and so on...

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  • Humphrey got the ...

    Humphrey got the Civil Rights Acts of '64 & '65 passed through Congress so LBJ could sign it. LBJ couldn't have gotten it through Congress because not all Congresspersons would let themselves be bullied by him.

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