Z. Alexander Looby, Nashville city councilman and attorney for the NAACP, ponders during recess his argument for 21 black children seeking desegregation in Nashville city schools during a federal court hearing March 27, 1956. The school board was asking the court for additional time to formulate a plan to desegregate the schools. 560327 B (Photo by Joe Rudis / The Tennessean/USA Today Network/Sipa USA)