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jok3333 [9.3K]
3 years ago
15

In an attempt to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the former Republican senator from South Carolina Strom Thurmond spoke for

24 hours and 18 minutes on the Senate floor. This set the record for the Senate's longest_______.
Social Studies
1 answer:
olganol [36]3 years ago
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Answer:

Strom Thumond 24-hour speech set the record for the Senate's longest filibuster speech.

Filibuster is the action of preventing the voting a passage of a bill by spending time delivering speeches. A Congress usually has time limits for approving of disapporving bills, and filibuster can be effective in preventing the bill from being voted on time.

Senator Strom Thurmond delivered this speech to keep the Civil Rights Act from being approved, in the end, he lost his bid and president Johnson Sanctioned the act in 1964.

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