A local newspaper - The Aegis - reported on an NAACP legal filing on behalf of students to force an injunction to force Harford County Public Schools to file a more clear desegregation plan and delacre against racial segregation. The Aegis represented the white establishment in Harford. In a telling bit of editorializing, the article noted that: "Twenty-one children now attending Harford's fine colored schools are named in the petition."