Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

The longest spoken filibuster in American history was by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who went on for 24 hours and 18 minutes in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Thurmond ...

(for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate’s deepest ... in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes ...

Strom Thurmond, a senator from South Carolina, takes the cake for longest filibuster in recorded history, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. He was trying to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing.

Strom Thurmond boys' basketball came through with a narrow 50-42 win over Columbia in the first round of the Class AA playoffs on Feb. 18. While the Rebels looked poised to run away with the game ...