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Southern Manifesto
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The Southern Manifesto was a document written in February-March 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial
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integration in public places.[1] The manifesto was signed by 101 politicians (99 Democrats and 2 Republicans) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Main page Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. [1] The document was largely drawn up to
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The initial version was written by Strom Thurmond and the final version mainly by Richard Russell.[2] The manifesto was signed by 19 Senators
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and 82 members of the House of Representatives, including the entire congressional delegations of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
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Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. All of the signatures were Southern Democrats except two: Republicans Joel Broyhill and
Richard Poff of Virginia. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the Jim Crow laws that characterized the
Interaction American South and several northern states at the time.

About Wikipedia The Southern Manifesto accused the Supreme Court of "clear abuse of judicial power." It further promised to use "all lawful means to bring about
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people of both races. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding."
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Signatories and non-signatories [edit]

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In many southern States, signing was much more common than not signing. Those from southern States who refused to sign are noted below.[1]
Deutsch Refusal to sign occurred most prominently among the Texan and Tennessee delegations, where the majority of members of the United States
Français House of Representatives refused to sign.[1]
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United States Senate (in state order)
John Sparkman (D-Alabama)
Lister Hill (D-Alabama)
William Fulbright (D-Arkansas)[1]
John L. McClellan (D-Arkansas)
George A. Smathers (D-Florida)
Spessard Holland (D-Florida)
Walter F. George (D-Georgia)
Richard B. Russell (D-Georgia)
Allen J. Ellender (D-Louisiana)
Russell B. Long (D-Louisiana)
James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi)
John Stennis (D-Mississippi)
Samuel Ervin (D-North Carolina)
W. Kerr Scott (D-North Carolina)
Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina)[1]
Olin D. Johnston (D-South Carolina)
Price Daniel (D-Texas)
Harry F. Byrd (D-Virginia) [1]
A. Willis Robertson (D-Virginia)
Non-Signatories:

Albert Gore, Sr. (D-Tennessee)[1]

Estes Kefauver (D-Tennessee)[1]
Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) (Senate Majority Leader at the time, Johnson was not asked to sign the document.)[1]

United States House of Representatives (in state order)

Alabama:
George W. Andrews (D)
 Frank W. Boykin (D)
Carl Elliott (D)
George M. Grant (D)
George Huddleston, Jr. (D)
Robert E. Jones, Jr. (D)
Albert Rains (D)
Kenneth A. Roberts (D)
Armistead Selden (D)
Arkansas:
Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)
Oren Harris (D)
Brooks Hays (D)[1]
Wilbur D. Mills (D)
William F. Norrell (D)
James William Trimble (D)
Florida:
Charles Edward Bennett (D)
James A. Haley (D)
Albert Herlong, Jr. (D)
D.R. "Billy" Matthews (D)
Paul G. Rogers (D)
Robert L. F. Sikes (D)
Non-Signatories:
Dante Fascell (D)
William Cramer (R)
Georgia:
Iris F. Blitch (D)
Paul Brown (D)
James C. Davis (D)
John James Flynt, Jr. (D)
Tic Forrester (D)
Phil M. Landrum (D)
Henderson Lanham (D)
J. L. Pilcher (D)
Prince H. Preston (D)
Carl Vinson (D)
Louisiana:
Hale Boggs (D)
Overton Brooks (D)
F. Edward Hebert (D)
George S. Long (D)
James H. Morrison (D)
Otto E. Passman (D)
T. Ashton Thompson (D)
Edwin E. Willis (D)
Mississippi:
Thomas G. Abernethy (D)
William M. Colmer (D)
Frank E. Smith (D)
Jamie L. Whitten (D)
John Bell Williams (D)
Arthur Winstead (D)
North Carolina:
Hugh Q. Alexander (D)
Graham A. Barden (D)
Herbert C. Bonner (D)
Frank Carlyle (D)
Carl Durham (D)
Lawrence Fountain (D)
Woodrow W. Jones (D)
George A. Shuford (D)
Non-Signatories:
Richard Chatham (D)
Harold D. Cooley (D)
Charles Deane (D)
Charles Jonas (R)
South Carolina:
Robert T. Ashmore (D)
 W.J. Bryan Dorn (D)
John L. McMillan (D)
James P. Richards (D)
John J. Riley (D)
L. Mendel Rivers (D)
Tennessee:
Jere Cooper (D)
Clifford Davis (D)
James B. Frazier, Jr. (D)
Tom J. Murray (D)
Non-Signatories:
Howard Baker, Sr. (R)
Ross Bass (D)
Joe Evins (D)
Percy Priest (D)
B. Carroll Reece (R)
Texas:

Wright Patman (D) [1]

John Dowdy (D)
Walter Rogers (D)
O. C. Fisher (D) [1]
Martin Dies, Jr. (D) [1]
Non-Signatories:

Jack Brooks (D) [1]

Brady Gentry (D)
Sam Rayburn (D) [1]
Bruce Alger (R) [1]
Olin E. Teague (D) [1]
Albert Thomas (D) [1]
Clark W. Thompson (D)
Homer Thornberry (D) [1]
William Poage (D) [1]
Jim Wright (D) [1]
Frank Ikard (D) [1]
John J. Bell (D)
Joe Madison Kilgore (D) [1]
J. T. Rutherford (D)
Omar Burleson (D) [1]
George Mahon (D) [1]
Paul Kilday (D)
Virginia:
Edward J. Robeson, Jr. (D)
Porter Hardy (D)
J. Vaughan Gary (D)
Watkins M. Abbitt (D)
William M. Tuck (D)
Richard Harding Poff (R)
Burr Harrison (D)
Howard W. Smith (D)
William Pat Jennings (D)
Joel T. Broyhill (R)

See also [edit]

American Civil Rights Movement

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Brown v. Board of Education
1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress

References [edit] Wikisource has original text

related to this article:
Southern Manifesto
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Badger, Tony (June 1999). "Southerners Who Refused to
Sign the Southern Manifesto". The Historical Journal 42 (2): 517–534. doi:10.1017/S0018246X98008346 (inactive 2010-03-19). Retrieved 2007-
08-10.
2. ^ "The Southern Manifesto". Time Magazine. March 26 1956. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
3. ^ Grand Expectations The United States, 1945-1974 (1996) page 398

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Manifesto text and signers from the Congressional Record

Categories: 1956 in law | Segregated schools in the United States | Legal history of the United States | Political manifestos | History of racism
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