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Thurmond filibuster

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Photo courtesy U.S. Senate archives.


Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond during his record-setting 1957 filibuster on the Senate floor. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful effort to block the Civil Rights Act.

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