Hubert Humphrey

the history of Minnesota from its very beginnings. She begins her narrative of Minnesota with the glaciers moving across it, leaving in its wake a fertile land. She moves on from this to the first Indian inhabitants, all the way to the time of Hubert Humphrey. In the Chapter Three, she introduces to the reader a midwestern man named Scott Campbell. Scott Campbell was a half Native American, half Scottish man who lived his whole life in the midwest, and for a majority of that time he lived it in…

In the history of America, there have been a multitude of great leaders and politicians, and plenty of wars and opportunities for them to lead us and show us their great skills. I, as many people do, have my favorite leaders throughout history. Today I will be writing about President John F. Kennedy and President Ronald Reagan, telling of how they used their time in a leadership role to guide our country through trials and tribulations into victory, both personal and political. President…

between protesters and police followed. Americans went to vote in 1968, deeply disturbed. George Wallace was a white supremacist who ran as a third-party candidate and won more than 9 million votes. Only 500,000 votes split Richard Nixon from Hubert Humphrey, but Nixon won. In an industry usually operated by white men, the management hire people that look like themselves based off of an unconscious or deliberate bias. To hire more people of color, industries have to change their practices and no…

Hope’s Hopeful Journey Here in Summit Campus, we see students every day who stress over an assignment; in a way, Hope Jahren faced the same issue. We all started with a blank paper, but gradually, we began to write down a few of the things we experienced. Here and there, we will even go through a phase where we are stuck and don’t know what else to write. In Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Hope finds herself struggling becoming a scientist. Growing up, Hope was just a young girl with big dreams of…

NO THANKSGET THE APP Shattered society The shattered society The shattered society was an era of immense change that occurred in the United States of America for ten years between the years of nineteen sixty three and nineteen seventy three and marked America socially, shaping it the way it is today . It started with the assassination of the president thirty fifth president of the United States of America ;John F. Kennedy , who died on the 22 November 1963 at Dealey plaza in Dallas…

citizens. He also addresses the values of Rev. King and how important it is to keep the peaceful values he followed because violence wasn’t the answer. President Lyndon Johnson made April 7th, 1968 the day to mourn him and sent the Vice president Hubert Humphrey to attend on his behalf. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was for the push for Civil rights and his legacy is the fuel for new activists to continue his…

History, Vol. 2 (Emory, D. & Brown, G. 2016), “ By the spring of 1972, senior Nixon aide John Ehrlichman was overseeing a secret team of agents who performed various acts of sabotage against Democrats, such as falsely accusing Democratic senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual improprieties,…

Robert Dallek’s biography “John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life” is a number one national bestseller, and is one of the most well-known biographies highlighting the life of the John F. Kennedy. The book focuses on Kennedy’s childhood, political career, and mostly his presidency. It clarifies key issues during this time such as the Bay of Pigs debacle, the terrifying Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear test ban, race for space, and other controversial issues that took place during Kennedy’s time in…

The United States has been known for having some of the most prolific and influential leaders like Abraham Lincoln,James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy to name a few. They all had very impactful presidency's from Lincoln abolishing slavery, Garfield reasserting the superiority of the president over the senate, to Kennedy organizing the moon landing.But another thing that these three figures had the misfortune to share in common was that they were all shot during presidency, Presidential…

(Dixiecrats) In 1948, Civil Rights revealed the real differences between the north and the south. That’s when the Dixiecrat’s and Southern Strategy began. Once “Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota suggested new civil rights planks for racial integration and the reversal of Jim Crow laws”. (Dixiecrats) But Humphrey compromised and proposed the civil rights planks adoption in 1944. The planks were then adopted which led thirty-five republicans to walk out in protest. “The states’ rights…