Memo to Mississippi governor Paul B. Johnson  and Lieutenant Governanor Carroll Gartin from the director of the Sovereignty Commission about Louvenia Knight Williamson and her two sons, Edgar Williamson (May 1, 1954) and Randy Williamson (October 10, 1955) on Sovereignty Committee letterhead and written on February 14, 1964. The memo reads:  
1. This is a condensation a very voluminous file in the sovereignty commission on the two Williamson boys, shown on their birth certificates to be white males, sons of white parents, but possessing an amount of Negro blood leave to be between 1/16 and 1/32. 
 
2. This family lives in the stringer community of Jasper County. A school bus from the Stringer white attendance center passes in front of their home and also a school bus from the white attendant center at Soso in Jones County. The school board in Jasper County will not permit them to go to the white school and the school board and Jones county will not take them on transfer. They cannot and will not attend the Negro schools because they are white and because it would be violating Mississippi law they are now 8 and 9 years old respectfully and have never attended school one day. 
 
3. The state department of education asked the sovereignty commission to investigate and try to work out a solution to this problem. The sovereignty commission has made every attempt, through investigation and meeting with the school board personnel, to get these boys into a white school. We have even advised the officials involved that we can expect a lot of bad publicity on Mississippi if the boys are not admitted to a school. As of now, the newspapers, who know about the case, is holding publication at the request of the Sovereignty commission director. We could not maintain this black out in definitely. 
 
4. Unless the influence of the governors office and/or the lieutenant governors office can be of some assistance in solving this problem, the sovereignty commission must close its files with the situation remaining status quo. When we close our files with that progress we are afraid the news media will begin to publicize his case as two white boys who cannot go to school in Mississippi. As a newspaper man myself, I realize the story would make national headlines and we have attempted to avoid it. 
 
5. The sovereignty commission director will be happy to hear any recommendations from the governor or lieutenant governor. The commission file on this case is available if you wish to study it in detail. Signed Erle Johnston, Jr.