UpNorthNews Radio with Pat Kreitlow

This is the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Democratic convention when a young Minneapolis mayor named Hubert Humphrey helped his party escape its slide toward irrelevance and find the courage to throw off the deadweight that came from decades of racism. The author of a new book describes how the future vice president went from naive dreamer to modern leader. And we’ll ask how Wisconsin’s leaders at the time handled the long march toward embracing civil rights.