Members of the nation's highest tribunal may be learned in the law but they were utterly lacking in common sense when they rendered Monday's decision- common sense of the kind that should have gold them about the tragedy that will inevitably follow. There was no rejoicing among the substantial colored citizens of Jackson when the decision was announced. On the contrary, they read it with troubled faces, fearing what the consequences might be for the schools their children are now attending. Human blood may stain Southern soil in many places because of this decision but the dark red stains of that blood will be on the marble steps of the United States Supreme Court building. White and Negro children in the same schools will lead to miscegenation.
Miscegenation leads to mixed marriages and mixed marriages lead to mongrelization of the human race.
Jackson Daily News , Tuesday, May 18, 1954. Fred Sullens, editor.