Jamie Whitten: Difference between revisions

Whitten was originally a segregationist, as were many of his colleagues from Mississippi and the rest of the South. He signed the [[Southern Manifesto]] condemning the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decision ''[[Brown vs. Board of Education]]'', which desegregated public schools. Along with virtually the entire Mississippi congressional delegation, he voted against the Civil Rights Acts of [[Civil Rights Act of 1957|1957]], [[Civil Rights Act of 1960|1960]], [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|1964]], [[Voting Rights Act of 1965|1965]] and [[Civil Rights Act of 1968|1968]], as well as the [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|24th Amendment to the U.S Constitution]] and the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]]. Whitten later apologized for these votes, calling them a "mistake" caused by severe misjudgment. He voted for the [[Civil Rights Act of 1991]].