Research Catalog

Title

The Southern Manifesto : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / John Kyle Day.

Author

Day, John Kyle

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

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Description

viii, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc
• Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc
• Segregation in education > Law and legislation > History. > Southern States
• Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > History. > Southern States
• Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century
• Segregation in education > Law and legislation > History. > United States
• Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > History. > United States
• Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index.

Contents

The upheaval: interposition and moderation -- The racial politics of the 1956 elections -- Who wrote the southern manifesto? -- The declaration of constitutional principles -- The signatories -- The promulgation.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1345

ISBN

• 9781628460315 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1628460318 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781628460322 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013044475

OCLC

861671311

Author

Day, John Kyle, author.

Title

The Southern Manifesto : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / John Kyle Day.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index.

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Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1345