Columbia University professor, author, and New York Times columnist, Samuel G. Freedman, will talk to us about his latest book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.

We have copies of Freedman's book for sale for $17.48 as part of the event.

In his New York Times book review, Khalil Gibran Muhammad wrote, "Long before the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, Freedman argues, Humphrey led Minneapolis to become 'virtually the only city in America’ where a victim of racial discrimination could 'count on the government as an ally.' Freedman's book shows how this happened. It is a superbly written tale of moral and political courage for present-day readers who find themselves in similarly dark times."