1846, it prevented anti-slavery provision. 1922, it prevented anti-lynching legislation. 1957, as dr. west mentioned, it prevented segre desegregation legislation of schools. so it s part of our history but it needs to be eliminated now, because if we don t eliminate it, we are going to have the same kind of white-supremacist legislators in the minority preventing a majority of legislation from getting passed. legislation, that 60% of the people want. that is the truth about the filibuster. more truth. in the 1840s, before it was even called a fill bibuster senator n c. calhoun of south carolina used it to preserve slavery. in 1922, an anti-lynching bill was defeated by a filibuster, led by southern democrats. in 1957, senator strom thurmond took to the floor to filibuster