John and Melville Ivey respond to questions regarding the purposes of the Southern Regional Educational Board. When asked about the contention that some saw the SREB as an organization designed by southern governors to prevent the desegregation of schools in the South, John Ivey explains that as the executive director of SREB, he believed the organization's sole purpose was to use politics in order to make education more available to southerners, regardless of race. As a result, he publicly support judicial and legal measures for desegregation, which was a position somewhat unpopular among some of the political organizers of the SREB.