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It’s pretty poetic. Sixty-eight years after South Carolina Senator Storm Thurmond broke the record for the longest Senate speech to delay access to voting for Black Americans, Cory Booker ...
Nearly 70 years ago, Thurmond, a white “Dixiecrat” from South Carolina ... protections for disenfranchised Black Americans, Democrats point out that Senator Booker’s protest was of actions ...
The longest Senate speech on record before Tuesday was delivered by South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond ... Booker, only the fourth black senator to be popularly elected to the body, blew past ...
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The longest Senate speech on record before this was delivered by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond ... Mr Booker, only the fourth Black senator to be popularly elected to the body, blew past ...
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist ... Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black party leader in Congress, slipped into the Senate chamber to watch Booker on the afternoon of ...
The longest Senate speech on record before Tuesday was delivered by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker, only the ...
The longest Senate speech on record before Tuesday was delivered by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond ... Booker, only the fourth Black senator to be popularly elected to the body, blew past ...
It was a feel-good moment — a Black senator eclipsing the talkathon mark of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who harangued for 24 hours and 18 minutes against a civil-rights bill in 1957.
The longest Senate speech on record before Tuesday was delivered by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker, only the ...