The Atlanta Journal, in an editiorial, supported a proposed pupil placement law that would give the APS maximum control over the desegregation process:

" They (pupil placement laws) give to the states more power than they ever had before. They prevent any overrunning of a school. They allow, if a board wishes, the assignment of the better qualified pupils to one school."

"The placement law, administered without discrimination, makes possible a real breakthrough in educational efficiency. It permits, for example, establishment of classes for the fast learners, for the slow learners, and for those who are in one way or another retarded, with special attention for all. If we but have the good sense to rely on a law already held constitutional, it is possible to have schools without any one being overrun by Negro students, a fear which seems to be the chief bugaboo."

source: Atlanta Journal, December 1, 1959

The Atlanta Constitution had its own take on what the pupil placement plan really meant:

"It is a tragedy that the fanatics and the more extreme voices continue to deceive the people of the state in charging that an attempt is being made to integrate the Atlanta schools. This is wholly false. The contrary is true. Attorney for the Atlanta board has been and is B.D. (Buck) Murphy, a die-hard opponent of the court decision. He has guided the board, which has resisted through every known legal means."

source: Atlanta Constitution, December 2, 1959