Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the U.S. Armed Forces was abolished by Harry ...

Before Booker, the record was held by Strom Thurmond, who filibustered every single Civil Rights Bill that came before the Senate, and once stood for 24hr 18min in an attempt to stop the passage ...

Booker, D-N.J., surpassed the previous record of 24 hours, 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., with a speech that clocked in at 25 hours, 4 minutes. When he broke the record at ...

Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1952, U.S. President Harry Truman ordered government seizure of the steel industry to avoid a general strike. In 1960, the United States Senate passed the landmark Civil ...

If nothing else informs you of the rot at the core of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness of his hypocrisy, it’s how the white segregationist from South ...

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar distinction: surpassing South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24-hour civil rights filibuster to deliver the longest speech in Senate history.

Strom Thurmond’s (D-SC) 24-hour-and-18-minute speech against the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1957. It follows a long tradition of lengthy speeches in the upper chamber of the U.S ...

Booker’s speech surpassed the previous record for longest Senate floor speech, held by Strom Thurmond since 1957. The speech, which criticized actions of the Trump Administration policies ...

Mr Booker’s speech set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour speech in 1957 to try to prevent the passage of the Civil ...