The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress was a joint resolution by the legislature of the state of Georgia, and approved by Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin on March 8, 1957, urging the Congress of the United States to declare the 14th and 15th Amendments null and void because of purported violations of the Constitution during the post-Civil War ratification process.
Historical context.
The Memorial, part of Georgia's "continuing battle for segregation," followed the Supreme Court's ruling, in "Brown v. Board of Education", that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from discriminating against racial minorities in public schools.
Numeration of contentions.
The Georgia resolution is a petition in the form of a . The Resolution makes certain contentions, including the following:
Reaction.
The events described in the memorial were the subject of an editorial in a 1957 "U.S. News &amp; World Report".
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