Watson Coleman: “She also said, I believe the only way filibusters survive is the truth--truth. I have only been in this body for less…”

“She also said, I believe the only way filibusters survive is the truth--truth. I have only been in this body for less than a year. I know there is history in this body. The history is not always the greatest history when it comes to filibusters. There were attempts on the floor of this Senate to make sure that minorities didn't have certain rights; that minorities had poll taxes; that anti-lynching laws were filibustered. I have a chart here that talks about filibusters. I ask the distinguished chairman whether under F.D.R. civil rights was filibustered; under Truman, civil rights was filibustered; under L.B.J. civil rights was filibustered. Again, would it be the Senator's belief that necessary laws that were filibustered is something to be ashamed of and they were not the truth; filibusters were not the truth; the attempts to provide civil rights and opportunities for Americans for good things and they were filibustered, and filibustered was not the truth?”