John Frece, the author of the new biography Self-Destruction: The rise, fall, and redemption of U.S. Senator Daniel B. Brewster, writes a guest commentary piece for the Baltimore Sun that details the 1964 Maryland Democratic Presidential primary where U.S. Senator Daniel Brewster campaigned against the racist segregationist Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, and he discusses the impact that Brewster's primary victory had in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read Frece's article in the Baltimore Sun: How a Md. senator's reluctant run for president helped save the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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