The Southern Manifesto"

This post is an up-date on the Estes Kefauver item on 10/15/09. In that info I stated that Kefauver was one of three US southeastern senators who did not sign the Southern Manifesto. The other two were Albert Gore Sr. and Lyndon Johnson. This document was written in Feb/Mar of 1956 by senators Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell, and stated their "opposition to racial integration in public places". It was signed by 101 congressmen-99 democrats and 2 republicans: 19 were senators and 82 were house members. In the 1960's, the democrats switched to the GOP. Their opposition was against the Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education of 1954. The entire delegations of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, S. Carolina, and Virginia signed the document. (It would seem that the three non-signing senators would have been "profiles in courage" but Kefauver went on to the vice presidential nomination under Stevenson, and Johnson became VP and President. All three were re-elected).

(Source: Wikipedia 10/17/09)