Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration
On March 12, 1956, as the second anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education approaches, Senator Walter F. George rises in the U.S. Senate to announce the latest weapon in the segregationist arsenal—the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” known as the Southern Manifesto. Senator …
Walter F. George
Harry F. Byrd
Strom Thurmond
19 U.S. Senators
82 U.S. Representatives
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