He attended the University of Mississippi, Vanderbilt University and the University of Alabama before being admitted to the bar in 1927. Eastland was strong opponent of African American civil rights and a leading supporter of Jim Crow laws. James Eastland died in Doddsville, Mississippi, on 19th February, 1986.
Separation promotes racial harmony.
Segregation is not discrimination. Segregation is not a badge of racial inferiority. Segregation is desired and supported by the vast majority of the members of both of the races in the South, who dwell side by side under harmonious conditions. It is the law of nature, it is the law of God, that every race has both the right and the duty to perpetuate itself. Free men have the right to send their children to schools of their own choosing, free from government interference.