The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

The following year the University of Mississippi was forced to admit James Meredith a well qualified black student. He argued to not to use the 14th Amendment to overcome discrimination instead favoring the federal government's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Marshall and the Attorney General persuaded President Kennedy to enforce the order using federal troops.