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'''Lawrence Brooks Hays''' (August 9, 1898 – October 11, 1981), often referred to as '''L. Brooks Hays''' or simply '''Brooks Hays''', was a [[Democrat]] [[segregation]]ist from [[Arkansas]] who represented the state's 5th congressional district from 1943 to 1959. In the late 1950s, he was also the president of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]].<ref>Day, John Kyle. [https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lawrence-brooks-hays-506/ Lawrence Brooks Hays (1898–1981)]. ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas''. Retrieved September 22, 2021.</ref>
:''Not to be confused with [[Wayne L. Hays]], a Democrat U.S. representative from Ohio.
'''Lawrence Brooks Hays''' (August 9, 1898 – October 11, 1981), often referred to as '''L. Brooks Hays''' or simply '''Brooks Hays''', was a [[Democrat]] [[segregation]]ist from [[Arkansas]] who represented the state's 5th congressional district from 1943 to 1959. In the late 1950s, he was also the president of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]].<ref name=encyclopediaofarkansas>Day, John Kyle. [https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lawrence-brooks-hays-506/ Lawrence Brooks Hays (1898–1981)]. ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas''. Retrieved September 22, 2021.</ref>
==U.S. House of Representatives==
Hays was first elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in the [[1942 Midterm Elections|1942 midterms]],<ref name=encyclopediaofarkansas/> and re-elected numerous times.
In 1949, Hays introduced the "Arkansas Plan" which advocated for providing blacks in [[the South]] certain civil rights and voting rights guarantees, though did not address segregation.<ref name=encyclopediaofarkansas/> Indeed, Hays was a signatory to the 1956 [[Southern Manifesto]] in opposition to the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruling ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'', which he denounced.
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