The Southern Manifesto [electronic resource] : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / John Kyle Day.
2014
KF4155 .D39 2014eb
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The Southern Manifesto [electronic resource] : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / John Kyle Day.
Author
Day, John Kyle, author.
ISBN
9781628460315 hardcover
9781626740471 electronic book
9781626740471 electronic book
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
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KF4155 .D39 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.73/07980975
Summary
"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 fullscale 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index.
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