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The document known as the declaration of Constitutional Principles, later the document goes by the
name Southern Manifesto. This document was created in February to March of the year 1956, while the
84th Congress occurred. Out of the Congressmen, only 101 Congressmen voted and signed to prevent
racial integration at some public places. The document was created to go against the landmark Supreme
Court of 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which was the event that lead to segregation in public
schools was classified as unconstitutional. There were many Jim Crow laws segregating blacks from
whites but segregation in schools were unlawful. In the final draft, did not counteract with the “Brown”
decision, and did not support disagreement to school segregation. In other words, the document was
more about rights against the judiciary to develop its disposition.
The people in Congress did not grant equal rights to black or colored people. African Americans never
got the same privileges as the white propel in America. African Americans did not have the right to vote.
Of course there prohibitions and literacy test when it came time for African American to vote, eventually
every rule prevented African Americans from voting. President Johnson introduced the Voting Rights
Act, giving them the right to vote with less prohibitions but racism was still present. In Louisiana, a
literacy test was required for African Americans, who could not show they could read on a class 5
literacy level, in order to vote. This test was called the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test. Because of The
difficult questions and many right answers for one question, most African American voters were
rejected, granting only 10% of black people to vote.
The term known as “white flight” was a phrase used during the time Jim Crow laws were created and as
segregation occurred. This term was used to name the migration that occurred after WWII among the
