The Atlanta Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented this plea to the Atlanta, Georgia, Board of Education. It was written by John Hope, Harry H. Pace, T. K. Gibson, William F. Penn, B. J. Davis, and W. S. Cannon. John Hope was president of Morehouse College, a private, historically Black men’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. William F. Penn was a physician. Benjamin J. Davis edited the Atlanta Independent, a local African American weekly newspaper. The others were officers of the Standard Life Insurance Company. In the document they present four propositions to the Board of Education and demand that Black public schools be of equal quality in terms of availability, funding, and programming as the ones for white children in the city.