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 politicians from the former Confederate States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.

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 101 Southern members of the House of Representatives, and it included all of the State of Georgia's Congressional Delegation. 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.

See also

American Civil Rights Movement

External links

Manifesto text and signers from the Congressional Record