title: Clair Engle and the brain tumor that almost derailed the Civil Rights Act.
abstract: Senator Clare Engle was a United States senator from California who cast an important vote to end the filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, even as a brain tumor had left him with an expressive aphasia and would claim his life just a month later. This paper reviews the history of Senator Engle's illness in parallel with that of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Son
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014481:United States
keywords: United States politics; brain tumor; civil rights