Kilpatrick was appointed vice-chairman of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government led by attorney David J. Mays . In 1963 , Kilpatrick published an analysis of the post-Civil War Civil Rights Cases and two pamphlets : " Civil Rights and Legal Wrongs , " attacking the Civil Rights Act proposed by President Kennedy , and " Civil Rights and Federal Wrongs , " attacking expansion of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . His arguments for segregation were not entirely based on federalism . In 1963 , Kilpatrick submitted an article to '' The Saturday Evening Post '' , " The Hell He Is Equal " in which he wrote that the " Negro race , as a race , is in fact an inferior race . " ( The magazine 's editors rejected the article after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing killed four black schoolgirls . ) Kilpatrick eventually changed his position on segregation , though he remained a staunch opponent of federal encroachments on the states
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
James J. Kilpatrick