{"product_id":"the-southern-manifesto-john-kyle-day-9781628460315","title":"The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation","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 \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and the emergent civil rights movement. This statement allowed the white South to prevent \u003ci\u003eBrown's\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of the \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Kyle Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628460318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628460315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"John Kyle Day","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670462157055,"sku":"9781628460315","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-southern-manifesto-john-kyle-day-9781628460315","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}