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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

But the modern filibuster’s first civil rights fatality actually occurred decades earlier in the searing 1922 defeat of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.

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.

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 ...

He cited as one example "a bill protecting voting rights for southern Black voters" that was defeated by filibuster in 1891, and a legendary 1935 filibuster by Huey Long of Louisiana, who spoke ...

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.

In this Aug. 29, 1957, file photo, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., waves as he leaves the Senate chamber at end of his 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster against the Civil rights Act. / AP ...