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Offers A Full Account Of The Complex Battle To Get The Civil Rights Bill Passed. The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Was The Single Most Important Piece Of Legislation Passed By Congress In American History. This One Law So Dramatically Altered American Society That, Looking Back, It Seems Preordained--as Everett Dirksen, The Gop Leader In The Senate And A Key Supporter Of The Bill, Said, No Force Is More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come. But There Was Nothing Predestined About The Victory: A Phalanx Of Powerful Senators, Pledging To Fight To The Death For Segregation, Launched The Longest Filibuster In American History To Defeat It. The Bill's Passage Has Often Been Credited To The Political Leadership Of President Lyndon Johnson, Or The Moral Force Of Martin Luther King. Yet As Clay Risen Shows, The Battle For The Civil Rights Act Was A Story Much Bigger Than Those Two Men. It Was A Broad, Epic Struggle, A Sweeping Tale Of Unceasing Grassroots Activism, Ringing Speeches, Backroom Deal-making And Finally, Hand-to-hand Legislative Combat. The Larger-than-life Cast Of Characters Ranges From Senate Lions Like Mike Mansfield And Strom Thurmond To Naacp Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, Ca

Author

Risen, Clay, author

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608198269

Subjects

Law, Political Science, History

Rating

4.03 / 5 (98 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14