Question

[This court decision] is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding.

–Southern Manifesto,
March 12, 1956

Amicable means “friendly.”

How does the Southern Manifesto characterize the relationship between African Americans and whites in the years prior to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

as destructive

as friendly

as neutral

as suspicious

Answer 1

as friendly

The Manifesto calls the relations "amicable" and says the decision planted hatred where there had been "friendship and understanding," indicating they viewed relations as friendly.