1 The main resistance by the South to Supreme Court's rulings that began to chip away at segregation customs in the 1950's and early 1960's was to threaten succession once again boycott northern industry oppose any Civil Rights legislation using the old "State's Rights" argument close down the segregated schools of African-Americans

1 The main resistance by the South to Supreme Court's rulings that began to chip away at segregation customs in the 1950's and early 1960's was to threaten succession once again boycott northern industry oppose any Civil Rights legislation using the old "State's Rights" argument close down the segregated schools of African-Americans