ABSTRACT
During the week of July 12, 1948, when the Democratic National Convention met in Philadelphia, two new figures entered the national political arena, where one of them still contests in 1996: Mayor Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minneapolis and Governor James Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. The convention dutifully nominated Harry Truman for president, but the major battle centered on the civil rights plank in the platform, with Humphrey and Thurmond playing major roles.
