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Filibuster is the process of deliberately delaying legislative progress through long speeches or other means. It extends debate in a manor to delay or prevent a vote.
Senators are allowed to speak for or against a bill and a vote can not be taken until the everyone has had a reasonable opportunity to speak. However, there is a tactic known as the filibuster in which a senator or a group of Senators speak for no purpose except to delay a vote on the bill. The Senate can vote to end debate but this action currently required a 60% majority , so unless 60% of the senators want to end debate and get a vote, the debate can go on until the bill is withdrawn without a vote and the bill dies .
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Single senator can block legislation in the Senate via a filibuster - continuing the debate indefinitely. It requires a 3/5 majority to end a filibuster (60 votes in the current 100 senator US-Senate). When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 Democrat Senators invoked the filibuster to prevent a vote on it. After 54 days, a substitute bill was introduced. Eventually a cloture (vote to end debate) was passed and the substitute bill was passed by the Senate on June 19.
The nonviolence used by civil rights activists was a good tactic to highlight the violence experience by black in the south. The media would record the passive civil rights activist being harmed and the more the violence was out in the open the better for the movement. .
They used a filibuster to delay a vote on the law.
organizing demonstrations to protest discrimination
protesting peacefully and launching boycotts
A filibuster is a long speech by a Senator that stops a bill's passage. It is a parliamentary procedure that dates back to ancient Rome where the senator Cato the Younger often used this tactic.