Samuel G. Freedman Into the Bright Sunshine

About the author:

Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, journalist, and educator who is the author of ten acclaimed books. Freedman’s books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize (The Inheritance) and the National Book Award (Small Victories) and have received the National Jewish Book Award (Jew vs. Jew) and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism (Upon This Rock). Freedman is a professor at Columbia Journalism School and a former columnist for the New York Times.

About the book:

Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism) fills two gaps in the scholarship. It illuminates the early portion of Humphrey’s career, when he earned national renown for his battles against racism and antisemitism as mayor of Minneapolis and a rising star in the Democratic Party. And it recounts the vital civil rights efforts of the 1940s, many of them inspired by the sacrifices of Black GIs who fought for what they called “Double V”—victory over fascism abroad and then Jim Crow at home.

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