Answer to question #3: Senator Strom Thurmond, Democrat, lobbied strongly against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, setting a filibuster record in the process. Incidently, he was considered the Democrat's elder statesman of the senate at the time.
Next blog: some observations and analyses about my recent questions/answers regarding the 1957 Civil (Minority Voting) Rights Act relative to today's perception about what the Republican Party in general and the Tea Party in particular are all about with respect to civil rights.
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