Status Updates From Devil in the Grove: Thurgoo...

Margold advised the NAACP to "boldly challenge the constitutional validity" of black schools based on the 14th Amendment... After studying the report, Huston devised a long-term plan whereby the NAACP would establish over a number of years a series of precedents in courts across the South regarding inequalities in public school budgets and facilities - to demonstrate "the law functioned to sustain white supremacy."

"(McCarthy) noted that the whites he spoke with were less interested in seeking revenge for the rape of Norma Padgett than in seeing the demise of 'all independent colored farmers'."