<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a> begins <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957">a filibuster</a> to prevent the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> from voting on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Civil Rights Act of 1957">Civil Rights Act of 1957</a>; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Filibuster in the United States Senate">filibuster</a> ever conducted by a single Senator.