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NAACP and LCCR Legislative Strategies and Objectives
In this report Clarence Mitchell outlines the legislative strategy and objectives of the NAACP and LCCR. He also describes how the pro-civil rights senators organized to beat the Southern filibuster. Whips Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Thomas Kuchel (R-CA) were named floor leaders for the bill. Other senators were appointed as floor captains to master and debate the bill's major titles. Humphrey, Kuchel, their captains, and a Justice Department official, met every morning to discuss tactics. Mitchell and Rauh joined them twice a week. The Humphrey-Kuchel strategy was to delay a cloture motion until they were assured of the two-thirds vote (67 out of 100 senators) required to end the debate. |