The Segregationist's Arguments

 

The attorneys representing the states in the Supreme Court argued many things like that fact that the Constitution did not say specifically that white and black kids had to go to school together. Another argument was that separating black and white people was something done all over the country, and the states should be able to  decide what they wanted to do regarding themselves. The Supreme Court could not regulate each individual state's social affairs. They also believed that the separation of black and white people, based solely on race, did not hurt black people, both mentally, emotionally, or physically. The final argument was that white people were trying to make the education systems equal, but black children were still dealing with the effects of slavery, so they couldn't integrate the schools until African American children were on the same level as white children and could compete with them in the same schools and classrooms.