Hubert Humphrey

Examples of Hubert Humphrey in the following topics:

• The Election of 1968

  • Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the tumultuous 1968 Presidential election.
  • This group supported Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
  • Some members of this group, probably older ones remembering the New Deal's positive impact upon rural areas, supported Vice President Humphrey, but most rallied behind George C.
  • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
  • Humphrey, meanwhile, promised to continue and expand the Great Society welfare programs started by President Johnson and to continue the Johnson Administration's "War on Poverty".

• 1968: The Year of Upheaval

  • On the night of his assassination, he had won a major victory in the California primary and seemed to have clinched a two-man race with Hubert Humphrey.
  • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the others: labor unions and big-city supporters of Vice President Hubert Humphrey; college students and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war and rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy; Catholics, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other racial and ethnic minorities who were passionate supporters of Senator Robert F.
  • Although Humphrey appeared to be in the lead, he was an unpopular choice with many of the antiwar elements in the party.
  • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
  • Democratic Humphrey, meanwhile, promised to continue and expand the Great Society welfare programs started by President Johnson and to continue the Johnson Administration's "War on Poverty".

• The Nixon Administration

  • Richard Milhous Nixon was elected president in the election of 1968, narrowly beating the incumbent vice president, Hubert Humphrey.

• The "New Negro"

  • In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
  • Describe the ideal of the "New Negro" articulated by Hubert Harrison, Matthew Kotleski and Alain Locke

• The Election of 1972

  • Instead, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, became the front runner, with South Dakota Senator George McGovern a close second place.

• The Harlem Renaissance

  • In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro League baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the "New Negro" movement, which energized the African-American community with race- and class-conscious demands for political equality, an end to segregation and lynching, as well as calls for armed self-defense when appropriate.
  • In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper, respectively, of the "New Negro Movement."

• Utopian Communities

  • The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 to 1881.

• Cheap Amusements

  • For many years in the basement of the Playland Arcade in Times Square in New York City, Hubert's Museum featured acts such as the sword swallower, Lady Estelene, Congo The Jungle Creep, a flea circus, a half-man half-woman, and magicians such as Earl "Presto" Johnson.