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The Southern Manifesto

Back in the day on March 12th, 1956, the so-called Southern Manifesto was introduced in a Congressional speech by Representative Howard Smith. An identical version initially drafted by Senator Strom Thurmond was also presented in the U.S. Senate as well. The Manifesto was in direct response to the Supreme Court Ruling in the case of Brown v The Board of Education. The decision that called for the mandatory desegregation of schools in the United States was seen by lawmakers who signed on to the document as a substitution of “naked power” for “established law.” The Manifesto actually went on to claim that the landmark civil rights ruling had the effect of “destroying the amicable relations between the white and the negro races.” It further stated that it “planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding.”

I’m sure our black listeners and others are having a good chuckle at that characterization!

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history