On This Date....

...in 1956....The "Southern Manifesto"  was signed by the entire Alabama Congressional Delegation...and about 100 members of Congress in all,  mostly from Southern States . They were displaying their opposition to The U.S. Supreme Court's 1955 Brown v The Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools.
    Both U.S. Senators and all nine members of the House from Alabama signed it. 

• John Sparkman (D-Alabama)
  
• Lister Hill (D-Alabama)

• George W. Andrews (D)
• Frank W. Boykin (D)
• Carl Elliott (D)
• George M. Grant (D)
• George Huddleston Jr. (D)
• Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)
• Albert Rains (D)
• Kenneth A. Roberts (D)
• Armistead Selden (D)

Ironically Justice Hugo Black voted with the majority for the decision----Hugo Black of Alabama, who later voted to declare organized prayer in public schools unconstitutional. He became a pariah in the state, and is still considered one by some Alabamians.