Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook comments on the Calhoun Lawsuit:

"The filing of the suit has:

1) totally disrupted present plans of the State School Building Authority to finance the construction of more than 700 classrooms in the Atlanta and Fulton County school systems;

2) made it necessary for the Legislature to give serious consideration to the repeal of the Compulsory School Attendance Law;

3) it has suggested the possibility of the state to withholding funds from schools employing teachers and school officials who contribute to NAACP by reason of membership or otherwise; and

(4) suggested an immediate investigation into the question of whether those responsible for the filing of the suit should be prosecuted for violating the 1957 barratry law.

"In my opinion the quicker this lawsuit is withrdrawn by the two New York Negro attorneys for NAACP the better it will be for all persons concerned."

source: Atlanta Constitution, January 13, 1958