sentences:  He won a full term that November and was reelected 11 more times from the Montgomery-based district.Having signed the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in "Brown v. Board of Education", in 1957 he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.In 1964, Grant faced his first credible opponent in the Democratic primary when former Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin challenged him.