Photo: #Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the 1960 Democratic primary

Broadcast: Midday, 01/08/2008, 12:00 p.m.

St. Paul, Minn. — In 1960, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy were locked in a battle to win the Democratic nomination for that year's presidential race.

As historian Allida Black explains in a recent speech at the Minnesota History Center, the outcome of that primary was shaped by Eleanor Roosevelt's political muscle.

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