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TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill

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