- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ministers' Manifesto
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2007-10-12
- Subject:
- Ministers' Manifesto
Out of conviction: A Second Statement on the South's Racial Crisis
Atlanta Christian Council
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Rabbis--Georgia--Atlanta
Georgia. General Assembly. Committee on Schools
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Georgia--Atlanta
School integration--Georgia--Atlanta
School integration--Massive resistance movement
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Georgia
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--Arkansas
African Americans--Education--Georgia
Education--Georgia
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia
Civil rights--Georgia
Federal-state controversies--Georgia
Federal-city relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Intervention (Federal government)--Georgia
Bombings--Georgia--Atlanta
Political violence--Georgia--Atlanta
Jews--Violence against--Georgia--Atlanta
Synagogues--Georgia--Atlanta
Violence--Georgia--Atlanta
Race relations
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
Racism--Georgia--Atlanta
Obedience (Law)--Georgia
Radicalism--Georgia
Citizens' advisory committees--Georgia
Political planning--Citizen participation
Southern Manifesto
Arkansas. National Guard
Soldiers--Arkansas
Freedom of speech--Georgia
Prayer--Georgia
Atlanta Public Schools
Public schools--Georgia--Atlanta
Public schools--Arkansas--Little Rock
School closings--Georgia
School closings--Southern States
Mobs--Arkansas--Little Rock
Press conferences--Washington (D.C.)
Atlanta (Ga.)--Press coverage
School integration--Georgia--Press coverage
African Americans--Georgia--Press coverage
Atlanta (Ga.)--History--20th century
Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century
Georgia--History--20th century
Georgia--Politics and government--20th century
Temple (Atlanta, Ga.)
Government, Resistance to--Southern States--History--20th century
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) - People:
- Rothschild, Jacob M., 1911-1973
Vandiver, S. Ernest (Samuel Ernest), 1918-2005
Hartsfield, William Berry
Sibley, John A. (John Adams), 1888-1986
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about a statement of conscience issued in November 1957 by eighty members of the Atlanta Christian Council. The statement, issued after the school integration crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, discouraged city officials and Atlanta citizens from pursuing a course of massive resistance to federal authority. Better known as the "Ministers' Manifesto," the statement called for moderation, communication between the races, racial amity, and obedience to the law. One year later, after the Temple bombing in Atlanta aroused new fears of racial extremism, more than 300 ministers issued a second manifesto calling for the creation of a citizens' commission to debate alternatives to massive resistance. Both statements helped defuse the city's racial tensions, and helped earn Atlanta a reputation as "the City Too Busy to Hate."
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GSE identifier: SS8H11 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/ministers-manifesto/
- Language:
- eng
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