The record that Booker broke belonged to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a devout segregationist who spoke for 24 hours, 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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WASHINGTON — Sen ... 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 7:19 p.m. ET, Booker was met ...

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He broke former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record for longest Senate filibuster, which was 24 hours and 18 minutes. Thurmond had filibustered to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act ...

Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness ... His Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, was born to a 16-year-old domestic servant who worked for the parents of the then ...

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.

He received his bachelor's and Master’s degrees from Stanford and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queen’s College, Oxford, earning a degree in United States history in 1994. He got ...

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 ...

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker took the Senate floor on Monday evening in Washington to give a speech ... surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour speech in 1957 to try to prevent the passage ...

Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body ... unknown to his colleagues and constituents at the time was Thurmond’s Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who was in her ...

Loud applause filled the chamber as Booker surpassed the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marked the moment by interrupting Booker with a question ...