Eugene Cook weighed in with his own demand that any member of the NAACP be terminated, saying

"a license to teach school in Georgia is not a license to defy the will of the people of the people of Georgia." He urged local authorities to "keep in mind that it is not a violative of the federal constitution or our system of government for the people of a sovereign state to circumvent a U.S. Supreme Court decision, if in doing so they operate within the framework of the Constitution and laws made pursuant to it. The people, the governor, and all top state officials have time and again put the public on notice that there will be no mixing of the races in the public schools of our great state."

source: Atlanta Constitution, July 13, 1955