Браун против Совета по образованию
Thurmond co-wrote the first version of the Southern Manifesto, stating disagreement with the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education," that desegregated public schools. Thurmond was part of the group of Southern senators that met continually in the office of Russell in early 1956 and shared a commonality of being dispirited with "Brown v. Board of Education".