so when thinking about the tone, he said that he aimed to achieve a tone that was unemotional, nonrhetorical, and nonaccusatory in an effort to avoid alienating white southerners. while it is understood to be aggrieved and angry, that is not how it is at the time. i found comments from senator who is said this is noninflammatory. you may think they were just attempting to be the plight of their senators, but more detached observers including the new republic and the nation says this was not the sort of inflammatory rhetoric that one may have expected. and that certainly did exist. i will talk more about that in a moment. >> with respect to the audience questio question. and it could be reproduced and it is ordinary folks that could read the court's rational. the drafters shared the same goals. i have a copy that appeared in the "new york times" on the day of them manifesto that it appeared, and they sought to please their case directly to a nationwide audience. they wrote the manifesto not order to whip up segregation in the south, but to tamp down in the south. they said this all of the tim

justice warren was writing brown, he said that he aimed to achieve a tone that was unemotional, nonrhetorical and nonaccusatory in an effort to avoid alienating white southerners. so, while the manifesto today is understood to be, you know, sort of aggrieved and angry and nasty, that's not how it was understood at the time. indeed, many people commented on the mild tone. i found comments from senators who said, this is noninflammatory. you might think that they were just attempting to be polite to their fellow senators and avoiding some sort of, you know, nasty confrontation, but even more detached observers, including in "the new republic" and "the nation" said this is not the sort of inflammatory rhetoric that one may have expected. and that rhetoric certainly did exist, and i'll talk more about that in a moment. with respect to the audience question, you know, warren said that he wanted to keep the draft very short so that it would be readable by the lay public and could be reproduced in newspapers around the country, right? that he wanted this to be an understandable decision so that ordi