Three NC Congressmen refuse to sign on to "Southern Manifesto," 1956: This Date in History

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From the Omaha, Nebraska Evening World-Herald, March 12, 1956

NC Reps. Thurmond Chatham, Charles B. Deane, and Harold D. Cooley refuseed to sign on to the Declaration of Constitutional Principles (the so-called "Southern Manifesto") of 11 Mar. 1956—a document pledging its signers to the use of "every lawful means" to resist what they considered the usurpation of power by the federal judiciary in public school desegregation. (Chatham and Deane lost their bids for renomination in the state Democratic primary May 26. Their failure to sign the manifesto was a major issue used against them.)

In a later comment to his pastor, Deane said: "I do not have to remain in Washington but I do have to live with myself. I shall not sign my name to any document which will make any man anywhere a second-class citizen."

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