Cory Booker Breaks Record Set By Segregationist Thurmond

A Black senator just broke the 1957 speaking record set by a racist senator who fought to block civil rights

Cory Booker just broke the record for the longest Senate speech in U.S. history, and the senator whose record he beat was a segregationist who opposed civil rights.

In 1957, a South Carolina senator named Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes, filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was a racist who openly supported the continued segreg…