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One famous example was when Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights act by speaking for 24 hours continuously.

Politicians like Strom Thurmond and Joe Biden enjoyed long careers in the Senate after opposing the Civil Rights movement.

Strom Thurmond was a Democrat who changed parties - swapped to a Republican - when democrats supported and pushed integration.

Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

Strom Thurmond switched from being a southern Democrat to the GOP — and was welcomed.

Strom Thurmond spoke for days to filibuster the civil rights laws, and he eventually had to stop because he got tired.

For example, late Senator Strom Thurmond discreetly supported his illegitimate daughter Essie Mae.[0] Her mother was only 16 years old when impregnated.

Strom Thurmond was repeatedly reelected because of what he did, not despite it.

Storm Thurmond was a hateful and bigoted anti-progressive dinosaur in the 50s.

Trent Lott, at the time head of the Republican Senate caucus badly embarrassed himself by letting people hear him say that Strom Thurmond was right in 1948.

Strom Thurmond switched from Democrat to Republican in 1964.

If Strom Thurmond was still alive you can bet I'd say the same thing about his efforts against, you know, the Civil Rights Act.

It's so crazily reductionist, it looks like what a troglodyte like Strom Thurmond might sketch if you had him draw an "Asian-looking mouse".

Strom Thurmond openly switched to the republican party claiming that the Democrat's support and passing of the civil rights act and voting rights act meant they "no longer represented people like him" This is also clear if you understand the history of black people in the south.

Before Thurmond, the previous switch was by Morse (Oregon) who went from Republican to Democrat in 53-55.

I mean, Strom Thurmond, of all people, used to be a Democrat.

For example Strom Thurmond, a far-right-wing senator from South Carolina, was a Democrat until 1964.