Federal Versus State/Local Gov

Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, the federal and southern state/local government battled each other on many issues. When the federal government set mandates, often times the southern state/local government had much resistance with complying. The southern state/local government opposed the Civil Rights Movement by non-compliance to federal mandates, refusal to provide adequate protection to civil rights protesters and the abuse of civil rights protesters. There were many situations when the state/local …

…Constitution. Many southern state/local officials felt that the federal government was over stepping their boundaries by making mandates and not allowing the states to use their own discretion when it came to its own citizens. This lead to much of the battles between the federal and state/local government. Inevitably, the federal government won because they had more power than the state/local government and was willing to disperse it to upheld their mandates.