The real government institution that should be blamed for trying to muzzle the Civil Rights Movement is Congress. They stopped the Civil Rights legislation in 1957 when it was brought about by Eisenhower. Senator Storm Thurmond stopped the legislation by a filibuster of the bill on the Congress's floor. He spoke for twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes, preventing a quorum, from being called, because there was not quorum the Senate adjourn without voting. Congress should also be blamed because it was the southern conservative democratic governors and Congress members who were going against the Civil Rights movement. They were the ones blocking the doors of institutions and allowing African Americans to be harmed. By not pushing the matter
