Two legal arguments by the APS opposing the Calhoun suit in March 1958:

1. The defense said that the "parents hadn't exhausted the administrative remedy provided by the laws of Georgia, and had not gone before the Board of Education or appealed from adverse action of that board to the state Board of Education and thus had not followed proper procedure."

2. The 10 parents, according to the motion, had no right to represent 40,000 Negro children in Atlanta and 1,200 teachers who had not shown that they favored the suit.

source: Atlanta Constitution, June 5, 1959