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12-25-2021, 08:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ZdFjZxQXA
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article245380980.html
Thurmond’s pro-segregationist views are well-known. He ran for president in 1948 as a third party candidate committed to keeping segregation alive in South Carolina and the South. He set the Senate’s filibuster record in 1957 in an effort to defeat a civil rights proposal. He voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he urged the FBI to investigate whether Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist.
Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article245380980.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-will-need-partners-to-restore-our-institutions-where-will-he-find-them/2020/10/27/11f3f506-186d-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
The braying white supremacist who tried to sink Harry S. Truman in 1948 because Truman embraced desegregation . . . the racist who signed the Southern manifesto against civil rights and delivered a record filibuster against a modest measure of justice . . . the politician who personified the regional realignment of parties over race in America . . . the man who hid his parentage of a mixed-race child for decades . . . this man chose Joe Biden to speak over his casket.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/racist-filibuster-we-cant-afford-forget
But I want to remember another filibuster from 1957, not for its length of time, but for what it represents. This filibuster was carried out for more than 24 hours to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article245380980.html
Thurmond’s pro-segregationist views are well-known. He ran for president in 1948 as a third party candidate committed to keeping segregation alive in South Carolina and the South. He set the Senate’s filibuster record in 1957 in an effort to defeat a civil rights proposal. He voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he urged the FBI to investigate whether Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist.
Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article245380980.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-will-need-partners-to-restore-our-institutions-where-will-he-find-them/2020/10/27/11f3f506-186d-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
The braying white supremacist who tried to sink Harry S. Truman in 1948 because Truman embraced desegregation . . . the racist who signed the Southern manifesto against civil rights and delivered a record filibuster against a modest measure of justice . . . the politician who personified the regional realignment of parties over race in America . . . the man who hid his parentage of a mixed-race child for decades . . . this man chose Joe Biden to speak over his casket.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/racist-filibuster-we-cant-afford-forget
But I want to remember another filibuster from 1957, not for its length of time, but for what it represents. This filibuster was carried out for more than 24 hours to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.