It denounced the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown as an abuse of power, described the Court as having destroyed in a stroke “the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races,” denounced “outside agitators” who wanted to bring “revolutionary changes,” and pledged to halt the implementation of school desegregation. The document was signed by 82 representatives and 19 senators—about one-fifth of the Congress, all Democrats except for two Virginia Republicans. Every one of the signatories, including
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