On this day in 1956, 19 senators and 77 congressmen signed the “Southern Manifesto.”
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today March 12, 2023 MARCH 12, 1956 Nineteen senators and 77 congressmen signed the “Southern Manifesto,” denouncing the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, as an “abuse of judicial power” and called for resistance to integration by “any lawful means.” Only three Southern Senate Democrats refused to sign: Albert Gore Sr., Lyndon B. Johnson and Estes Kefauver.
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