We know that the filibuster has been utilized on a number of occasions on issues dealing with race, and particularly suppressing and prohibiting Black Americans, in particular, from exercising all of their rights as American citizens.
Jaime Harrison discusses the historical use of the filibuster to suppress the rights of Black Americans.
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