The American movement for civil rights across 100 years, from the Civil War through the 1960s, is one of the greatest stories of humanity. Certainly, it is defining for America. And it helped universalize American values of human equality. Those values come from Christian anthropology. As the Scriptures note, “the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.”
Lyndon Johnson, who presided over landmark civil rights legislation, was the most important white advocate for civil rights in the 20th century. But far less remembered is the second most important white advocate, his eventual vice president: Hubert Humphrey. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights tells the story.
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