From left to right: Benjamin Laney, Guy E. Williams, William Fulbright, and Carl E. Bailey pose for a photograph at Lake Chicot, August 10, 1944. Laney later served as governor and led the segregationist Dixiecrat faction in Arkansas. Fulbright served as a U.S. Senator and signed the Southern Manifesto. Bailey Family Photograph Collection, ca. 1895-1964 (UALR.PH.0083), UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.Editor’s Note: Savvy senior CFP columnist Lee Cary, who doesn’t believe in the wholesale destruction and removal of historical monuments, called out the hypocrisy of the Democrats five years ago on American Thinker: "As Confederate flags come down, so should the monuments that honor the Democrat politicians who overwhelmingly supported The Southern Manifesto of 1956”, writes today: "If the Democrats want to remove statues, here’s a challenge to them”.As Confederate flags come down, so should the monuments that honor the Democrat politicians who overwhelmingly supported The Southern Manifesto of 1956.
The Southern Manifesto – officially entitled The Decision of the Supreme Court in the School Cases Declaration of Constitutional Principles – was signed by 101 members of the U.S. Congress, including 19 senators and 82 members of the House of Representatives. Ninety-nine of them were Democrats.
Editor’s Note: Savvy senior CFP columnist Lee Cary, who doesn’t believe in the wholesale destruction and removal of historical monuments, called out the hypocrisy of the Democrats five years ago on American Thinker: "As Confederate flags come down, so should the monuments that honor the Democrat politicians who overwhelmingly supported The Southern Manifesto of 1956”, writes today: "If the Democrats want to remove statues, here’s a challenge to them”.
