John and Melville Ivey discuss their views on race and on desegregation. Melville explains that throughout his career, John had always demonstrated his belief that African Americans and whites were deserving of equal opportunities, as evidenced by his volunteer teaching in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the early 1940s. John corroborates this by noting that through his work with the SREB, he hoped to improve education across the board because he believed education was the key to cooperation and political development in the South.