The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Letter from MLK to Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen
Abstract
Dr. King thanks Senate Minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Illinois) for his role in helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dirksen was one of a handful of Republican Senators that helped break a southern Democratic filibuster designed to prevent the passing of this legislation.