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A U.S. Senate vote to launch formal debate on the House-passed Civil Rights Bill was received happily by supporters of the legislation in 1964. Victory signs, signifying rejection of Southern senators’ attempts to delay debate by subjecting the bill to committee hearings, are made by, from left to right, key legislative leaders Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Sen. Philip A. Hart, and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. Religion News Service file photo
