“There is only one solution in the event segregation is banned by the Supreme Court,” Mr. Talmadge declared on December 18, 1952, anticipating how the justices would rule in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. “And that is abolition of the public school system.”

“The mixing of races in the schools will mark the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it,”

Even before Brown II was announced, voters in Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi had approved constitutional amendments authorizing their legislatures to abolish public education if they were ordered to integrate.

Our personal opinions about the decision have no bearing on the matter of enforcement; the responsibility and authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution are very clear.

They thus demonstrated to the world that we are a nation in which laws, not men, are supreme.

The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the Federal Courts, even, when necessary with all the means at the President's command.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.

“There was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, ‘Well, it’s been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time. [My editors] didn’t like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, ‘We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school.

The New Jersey Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools, Inc. (NJCDIS) is a non‐profit corporation organized under New Jersey law whose members are dedicated to redressing the intense racial and economic segregation in New Jersey public schools.

nearly half of the state's 585,000 black and Latino students go to schools that are more than 90 percent non-white,

New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students, <a href="https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/new-jerseys-segregated-schools-trends-and-paths-forward/New-Jersey-report-final-110917.pdf" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">according to a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.&nbsp;</a>

In Paterson, 67 percent of students are Hispanic and 22 percent are black. Wayne, which borders Paterson to the west, is 11 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;West Orange school district is 31 percent Hispanic and 38 percent black. Neighboring Essex Fells is 5 percent&nbsp;Hispanic and 3 percent&nbsp;black, while Millburn, which also borders West Orange, is 5 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black.