The Atlanta Branch of the NAACP adopted this resolution concerning the Atlanta school desegregation case:

"We now urge public officials, teachers, parents, private citizens and organizations concerned with the best education for our children to work together in a spirit of good will in light of the decision of Judges Frank Hooper and Boyd Sloan.

"The calm direct and clear context of this decision should remove confusion from the minds, and fear from the hearts, of all citizens.

"We will work to this end with officials and citizens at any time."

"They (the parents of the minor plaintiffs) are not members of the legislature, whose duty it is to enact laws in our state. These parents have stuck to the real issue of eliminating segregation in the schools, following legal means to do so."

signed by H.L. Bearden, President of the Atlanta NAACP

source: Atlanta Journal, June 18, 1959