The Southern Manifesto was created as a response to the decision of the Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. The Southern Manifesto is also referred to as the Declaration of Constitutional Principles. Brown v. Board, essentially ordered the end of segregation is schools. It overturned the prior Supreme Court decision of Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson. That case had decided that racial segregation was legal as long as it was relatively equal and did not imply "any inferiority of blacks," (Plessy v. Ferguson). Most governmental officials of the South on the federal, state, and local level were extremely upset by the decision, which threatened to uproot the way of life in the South which had existed for generations. Therefore,
