#HST3107

In conjunction with the tactic of Massive Resistance, 'The Declaration of Constitutional Principles' (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was drafted to support reversing the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Written in February and March 1956, during the 84th United States Congress, the manifesto was signed by 19 US Senators and 82 Representatives from the Southern United States. The signatories included the entire congressional delegations from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, most of the members from Florida and North Carolina, and several members from Tennessee and Texas.