Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Dems filibuster record


Fact check: Southern Dems held up 1964 Civil Rights Act, set filibuster record at 60 days

Rachael Riley

USA TODAY
A Delaware senator's vote was the deciding one in breaking a filibuster on the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and fellow civil rights leader Malcolm X, heading a new group known as Muslim Mosque, Inc., smile for photographers March 26, 1964, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. They shook hands after King announced plans for direct action protests if Southern senators filibuster against the civil rights bill.

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