"Southern Manifesto"
Statement
By: Strom Thurmond, representing nineteen senators and seventy-seven members of the House of Representatives
Date: March 12, 1956
Source: Thurmond, Strom. "Southern Manifesto." Congressional Record, 84th Congress, Second Session. Vol. 102, part 4, March 12, 1956. Washington, D.C.: Governmental Printing Office, 1956, 4459–4460. Available online at http://www.toptags.com/aama/voices/speeches/sthmani.htm; website home page: http://www.toptags.com/aama/index.htm (accessed March 3, 2003).
About the Author: James Strom Thurmond (1902–2003) was a teacher and school superintendent in South Carolina before obtaining his law degree. He served South Carolina as a state senator before being elected governor in 1946. He ran for president as the Southern...
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