Southern Manifesto

The Southern Manifesto was a document written in 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public places. It was signed by 96 Democrat politicians from the former Confederate States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

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1956 - United States Congress - Confederate States - Alabama - Arkansas - Florida - Georgia - Louisiana - Mississippi - North Carolina - South Carolina - Tennessee - Texas - Virginia

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It was largely drawn up to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which integrated public schools. The document was signed by 19 Senators and 77 members of the House of Representatives, and it included all of the State of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina's Congressional Delegation. All of the Signers were southern members of the Democratic Party. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the Jim Crow laws that characterized the American South at the time.

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Brown v. Board of Education - House of Representatives - Democratic Party - Jim Crow law - American South

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