"To Walk Forthrightly into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights"

"The motion carried. The Southerners walked out and ran Strom Thurmond for president. When Harry S. Truman won nonetheless, Democrats were on their way to becoming the party of civil rights. Hubert Humphrey catalyzed that change."

Rick Perlstein in The New York Times salutes Hubert Humphrey upon the Happy Warrior's one-hundredth birthday.