Hubert Humphrey and Human Rights

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Join Samuel Freedman and Jane Eisner as they discuss Freedman’s new book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. Their discussion will focus on Humphrey’s fight against antisemitism in post-World War II America.

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MEET THE PANEL

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Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, New York Times columnist, and professor at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School; Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church; The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond; Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry; Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life; Letters To A Young Journalist; and Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights.

Jane Eisner is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Forward. She recently completed a multi-year appointment as director of academic affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, overseeing the Master of Arts program. She is known for her interviews of such notable figures as President Barack Obama, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and many others. Eisner is the author of Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy, and is working on a book about Carole King for Yale University Press. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia Journalism School.

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