In “The Filibuster Made the Civil Rights Act Possible” (op-ed, April 12), David Hoppe views the history through the wrong end of the telescope. Far from demonstrating the workings of a great ...

But his windiness failed to block the bill. The Senate, for the first time in its history, voted to end debate on a civil rights bill — after a record two-and-a-half-month filibuster.

Not until 1964 did the Senate successfully overcome a filibuster to pass a major civil rights bill." The historical office has not tried to count the total number of filibusters used, ...

The claim: Democrats held the nation’s longest filibuster for 75 days to attempt to prevent the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. When senators want to put the brakes on legislation, they talk.

While the use of the filibuster long predates the Jim Crow laws of the 20th century, it was used extensively by senators from the South to block civil rights legislation.

In another dramatic example, after 60 days of debate, the Senate used cloture to end a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited forced segregation and racial discrimination.

Republican filibuster advocates have responded to charges that the supermajority is a Jim Crow legacy by insisting that it helped civil rights along, by forcing such laws to languish for decades ...

How the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows the value of the Senate filibuster | Opinion If a bill is important enough to be filibustered in the Senate, it’s important enough to fight for in the ...

Fifty years ago this Tuesday, on June 10, 1964, the U.S. Senate voted to end a filibuster that had gone on for 54 days, blocking an up-or-down vote on a civil-rights bill. The Senate had never ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. Skip to content. All Sections.

Rep. Alma Adams, D-NC, tweeted: "From 1917 to 1994, half of the bills that were successfully filibustered in the Senate were Civil Rights legislation." PolitiFact NC checks her claim.