William Fulbright, the Southern Manifesto and the path to the Central High crisis
Fulbright’s apologists like to claim that the senator’s sins during the Central High Crisis were ones of omission rather than commission — that he played no significant role in stoking segregationist outrage, but rather simply did little to stop it. But they are wrong. As an author and signatory of the Southern Manifesto, Fulbright provided a false cover of legitimacy to segregationists and emboldened them to defy the Brown decision.
Source: arktimes.com