Civil Rights Act aimed to prevent workplace discrimination. Trump says it promotes bias and will stop enforcing it.

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity ...

In doing so, he eclipsed a filibuster by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-SC), who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker’s marathon speech was not in opposition to a ...

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ...

Strom Thurmond’s (S.C.) record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the segregationist made history by trying to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker said he'd been aware of Thurmond's record since first coming to the Senate in 2013 — a room ...