Interview with Albertis S. Harrison
(WDBJ Television, Roanoke, VA)

Attorney General Albertis S. Harrison maintained that there was no real inconsistency between the actions of the local school boards in Norfolk, Charlottesville, and other localities and the laws governing the Pupil Placement Board that vested authority to assign pupils with the three-person state board. Harrison argued that localities needed to work out the criteria for assigning students, and like other white political leaders seemed to indicate that a range of criteria might be used to prevent integration in any schools despite federal court orders. WDBJ reporter referred to these communities as "under the segregation gun," and Harrison gladly picked up on the phrase. Harrison claimed that the administration was doing its "utmost" to continue the public schools in Virginia and doing its best to preserve "the good relations between the races" in Virginia.