The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation

Description: The Southern Manifesto by John Kyle Day 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Browns immediate full-scale 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 Senates Southern Caucus in particular, fought vigorously and successfully to counter the initial successes of civil rights workers and maintain Jim Crow. The Souths 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 statements impact upon both the struggle for black freedom and the larger racial dynamics of postwar America. Author Biography John Kyle Day is associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Review The creation and promulgation of the Declaration of Constitutional Principles--more commonly known as the Southern Manifesto--is a key turning point in twentieth-century American political and social history, and yet it is only now that we have a book detailing it. John Kyle Day has provided us a compelling and significant look at the document that more than any other propelled the movement for massive resistance among southern whites in the civil rights era. The Southern Manifesto, Day shows in a clear and concise fashion, provided not only an underpinning for legal opposition to the Supreme Courts Brown v. Board decision, it also energized southern whites at the grassroots level to suppress civil rights advances, effectively killed racially moderate politics in the South, and substantially reshaped politics on a national level.--Michael S. Martin, author of Russell Long: A Life in PoliticsThe Southern Manifesto has usually been mentioned in passing rather than studied in depth. John Kyle Days splendid book guarantees that it will not be overlooked in future examinations of the mid-twentieth century South. His delineation of the different types of segregationists is penetrating and illuminating; his description of the political pressures on them from constituents is comprehensive and sensitive. Particularly intriguing is his discovery that Southern Democrats in Congress were deeply apprehensive that Brown v. Board of Education would give the Republican Party a wedge issue it could use to break up the Solid South. The Southern Manifesto was an effort to preserve the Democratic Party and their offices as much as a defense of segregation. What Day has accomplished is a classic study of how ordinary politicians struggle to deal with extraordinary, revolutionary moments in history.--John Bullion, author of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics Long Description 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 Browns immediate full-scale 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 Senates Southern Caucus in particular, fought vigorously and successfully to counter the initial successes of civil rights workers and maintain Jim Crow. The Souths 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 statements impact upon both the struggle for black freedom and the larger racial dynamics of postwar America. Review Quote The Southern Manifesto has usually been mentioned in passing rather than studied in depth. John Kyle Days splendid book guarantees that it will not be overlooked in future examinations of the mid-twentieth century South. His delineation of the different types of segregationists is penetrating and illuminating; his description of the political pressures on them from constituents is comprehensive and sensitive. Particularly intriguing is his discovery that Southern Democrats in Congress were deeply apprehensive that Brown v. Board of Education would give the Republican Party a wedge issue it could use to break up the Solid South. The Southern Manifesto was an effort to preserve the Democratic Party and their offices as much as a defense of segregation. What Day has accomplished is a classic study of how ordinary politicians struggle to deal with extraordinary, revolutionary moments in history.John Bullion, author of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics Promotional "Headline" How one document marked the nadir of American racial politics and unleashed a fire that raged across the segregated South Details ISBN1628460318 Author John Kyle Day Short Title SOUTHERN MANIFESTO Publisher University Press of Mississippi Language English ISBN-10 1628460318 ISBN-13 9781628460315 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2014 Imprint University Press of Mississippi Subtitle Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Jackson Illustrations 29 black & white photographs AU Release Date 2014-06-05 NZ Release Date 2014-06-05 Publication Date 2014-07-30 UK Release Date 2014-07-30 Pages 240 DEWEY 344.73079809 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2014-07-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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