The southern manifesto was a document that declared the intent of southern lawmakers to support desegregation. northern lawmakers to support desegregation. southern lawmakers to oppose desegregation. northern lawmakers to oppose desegregation.

The Southern Manifesto was a document that declared the intent of Southern lawmakers to oppose desegregation.

The Manifesto was written in February and March 1956 to oppose to the Supreme Court’s decision of making segregation in public schools unconstitutional. It was signed in the United State Congress by 101 congress representatives from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.  

The correct answer is C) Southern lawmakers to oppose desegregation.

The Southern Manifesto was a document that declared the intent of Southern lawmakers to oppose desegregation.

The southern states did never really accepted segregation. That was a fact. They depended too much on slavery to grow the needed crops in the large plantations that were traded and exported to Europe. Time went on and southerners opposed integration in any form, despite the demands of civil rights activists.

The Southern Manifesto of 1956 was introduced by Howard Smith of the state of Virginia. The official title was "Declaration of Constitutional Principles." He received the support of 19 senators and 82 members of the House of Representatives and represented a direct opposition to the Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas.

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sonar maybe? ? i dont know the choices