1957U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended his 24-hour filibuster against proposed civil rights legislation. Thurmond, an ardent segregationist, sustained the longest one-person filibuster in history in an attempt to keep the civil rights bill from becoming law. He began by reading every state’s election laws in alphabetical order and later read from the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and George Washington’s Farewell Address. The bill passed and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law …