Question

Members of Congress signed the "Southern Manifesto" to ______.

A.) encourage desegregation in public schools
B.) express their opposition to the Brown ruling
C.) pledge support for the civil rights movement
D.) improve facilities in all-black schools

Answer 1

B.) express their opposition to the Brown ruling

Answer 2

The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (recognized unceremoniously as the Southern Manifesto) was a text written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in disagreement to ethnic incorporation of public places. The Congressmen just made a draft of the text to stand the milestone Supreme Court 1954 presiding Brown v. Board of Education, which resolute that separation of public schools was unconstitutional. So the answer B.