The Politics of Equality
Thurber, Timothy (College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University)![The Politics of Equality](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/234/23446067/CHSBZCOP0323446067.jpg)
Timothy N. Thurber explores the links between Senator Hubert Humphrey's policies on racial justice and economic reform. Thurber investigates Humphrey's legislative agenda in the context of the tensions between the class-based politics of the New Deal to which Humphrey wished the party to return and the rights-based politics that eventually came to dominate the Democratic platform. Although Humphrey is often associated with the civil rights mov...