Description

Letter dated May 9, 1956 from United States senator Albert Gore in response to a letter from a man in Memphis, Tennessee about the 1956 "Southern Manifesto" and Gore's decision not to sign the document. Gore recognizes his decision not to sign the manifesto has been unpopular with some people in Tennessee. He defends his position by stating that in his view, issuing the manifesto "did not contribute to a solution of the problem which we face in the South." Gore ends with the hope of agreement on other issues in the future. The Southern Manifesto was issued by Southern politicians partially in response to the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education which outlawed segregation in public schools. Identifying information has been removed to protest the identities of private citizens.The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Record Contributed By

Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia