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massive resistance
- The opposition of many white leaders in the South to the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown versus Board of Educationin 1954. The Court had declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The expression massive resistance was used in a letter signed by over a hundred members of Congress , calling on southerners to defy the Supreme Court's ruling.
Example Sentences
The six-part series speaks to the power of regular people banding together in whatever way they can to create massive resistance to injustice.
Because the problem that I'm seeing is that there is massive resistance on both the political and corporate level to everything you've just proposed.
Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia called ” massive resistance ″ to integration.
Kilpatrick in 1964 — he was a National Review contributor who was one of the architects of “massive resistance” in the state of Virginia.
Malnati said there was “massive resistance” to Saudi involvement because of the surprise June 6 announcement — PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, with board members Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne — were the only ones involved.
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