J. Skelly Wright and Spottswood Robinson being on the same side. Everyone admitted that Gaston County had been applying its literacy tests in a fair manner. but the court made a finding of fact which would have been resented as an insult on the Negro race. or should be resented as an insult on the black race. They said that Gaston County had maintained segregated schools before May 1964. and then they went ahead and reached the astounding conclusion that a black person cannot learn to read and write. or has great difficulty in learning to read and write. when taught by a black teacher in a school attended by other black students. I consider that an absolute insult to the black race.
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Black people cannot learn to read and write when taught by black teachers in segregated schools.