Interracial rape could be used as a weapon in both directions; rape was often used to terrorize and instill fear in black women and falsely shouted down black men to justify the murders and brutal lynching of black men. After the Supreme Court announced on May 17, 1954, the abolition of segregation in public schools, Melba Patillo, a twelve-year-old black girl, was attacked and sexually assaulted by a white man, who declared that he did so in retaliation to the Supreme Court. The court was trying to ruin his life and he couldn't stand "niggers wanting to go to school with his kids." Mae Holland, a black rape victim, said that “in the South, no white man wanted to die without having sex with a black woman” (McGuire 203). Holland was raped by her employer's white husband when she was eleven years old, she was not even his first young black rape victim, as he was notorious for it. The list of black rape victims is long; Betty Jean Owens, Annette Buttler, June Johnson, Bessie Turner and many other black women were also victims of racialized sexual violence and McGuire detailed each of their respective ordeals. Black women were hyper sexualized by white men and ironically; white men would not be very happy to find black men with white women. In 1949, Mack Ingram, a