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'''''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 of America|Confederate States]] - [[Alabama]], [[Arkansas]], [[Florida]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]], [[Texas]], and [[Virginia]].  

'''''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 of America|Confederate States]] - [[Alabama]], [[Arkansas]], [[Florida]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|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 [[U.S. Southern states|Southern]] members of the [[United States House of Representatives|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 law]]s that characterized the American South at the time.

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 [[U.S. Southern states|Southern]] members of the [[United States House of Representatives|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 law]]s that characterized the American South at the time.