 The Solid South opposed him.In the 1950s, Johnson was one of three Senators from the South who did not sign the Southern Manifesto of resistance to "Brown v. Board of Education", but Eastland and most Southern Senators did, vowing resistance to school integration.Contrary to popular opinion, Eastland did not use the appointment of Harold Cox to a federal judgeship as leverage against John F. Kennedy's appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.