A.C. Latimer's Comments to the Calhoun Lawsuit:

"I have not been served with any papers in the suit filed by Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the NAACP, against the Atlanta school board. Our board will confer as soon as possible with the city attorney who is charged by law with responsibility of defending the board of education.

"It is unfortunate and regrettable for this suit to be brought against the new board of education which faces many problems in reorganizing, in adopting its budget, in setting the tax rates for schools, and the many other vital and important duties it faces at this time.

"The NAACP is ill-advised and doing a great disservice to the Negro community in bringing this action.

"We have children to educate, teachers to hire, classrooms to build. We have a full-time job to work constructively for education and regret exceedingly that we must devote so much of our time to this lawsuit."

source: Atlanta Constitution, January 13, 1958