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The Southern Manifesto - Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation (Hardcover)
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The Southern Manifesto - Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation (Hardcover)
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On March 13, 1956, ninety-nine members of the United States
Congress promulgated the Declaration of Constitutional Principles,
popularly known as the Southern Manifesto. Reprinted here, the
Southern Manifesto formally stated opposition to the landmark
United State Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education,
and the emergent civil rights movement. This statement allowed the
white South to prevent Brown's immediate full-scale implementation
and, for nearly two decades, set the slothful timetable and glacial
pace of public school desegregation. The Southern Manifesto also
provided the Southern Congressional Delegation with the means to
stymie federal voting rights legislation, so that the dismantling
of Jim Crow could be managed largely on white southern terms. In
the wake of the Brown decision that declared public school
segregation unconstitutional, seminal events in the early stages of
the civil rights movement--like the Emmett Till lynching, the
Montgomery bus boycott, and the Autherine Lucy riots at the
University of Alabama brought the struggle for black freedom to
national attention. Orchestrated by United States Senator Richard
Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, the Southern Congressional
Delegation in general, and the United States Senate's Southern
Caucus in particular, fought vigorously and successfully to counter
the initial successes of civil rights workers and maintain Jim
Crow. The South's defense of white supremacy culminated with this
most notorious statement of opposition to desegregation. The
Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve
Segregation narrates this single worst episode of racial
demagoguery in modern American political history and considers the
statement's impact upon both the struggle for black freedom and the
larger racial dynamics of postwar America.
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