Word: filibusterer
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Forget the Mayonnaise. To help dramatize the Negro's 1963 revolution, leaders of civil rights organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and...
Since committee hearings are generally recessed while a Senate filibuster is in progress, Byrd may never have to hold any, if the Administration's civil rights bill provokes the expected filibuster. Byrd doubts that the tax bill will reach a vote on the Senate floor this year. Although he...
At President Kennedy's press conference last week, a newsman asked him whether he would "seek to abrogate" state antimiscegenation laws. Confronted with this touchy question the President put on a sort of nonsyntactical filibuster: "Well, I, the law would, if there was a marriage of the kind you...
"I'm Pessimistic." President Kennedy cannot even cherish much hope that his proposals will do better during the rest of the session. The prospect, indeed, is that his difficulties with Congress will worsen as a result of his civil rights bill. In the Senate, a Southern filibuster is certain...
For this reason, the President pleaded with Negro leaders to ease the current tensions and cease massive public demonstrations. His appeal was immediately rejected, and this week Roy Wilkens, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) told his organization's national convention that leaders...