Question

In response to court-ordered desegregation, the states of the Deep South responded with a carefully planned tactic known as:________ a. the Atlanta model b. the MacArthur Plan c. massive resistance d. the Beauregard Solution e. the defiance initiative

Answer 1

c. Massive Resistance.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The Massive Resistance emerged as a response to Supreme Court's ruling to desegregate public institutions in U.S after the Brown v Board of Education of 1954.

• The state government of Virginia and the whites from the South stood against the desegregation order and started the Massive Resistance campaign in 1956 to oppose the court's ruling.

• A number of state legislatures and congressmen also tactically drafted a manifesto called 'Southern Manifesto' to denounce the court's ruling.