William J. Suthon, a Tulane Law Professor, wrote The Dubious Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1953. He wrote:
What is to be discussed relates to the use of the Fourteenth Amendment by the United States Supreme Court as an implement for invading the areas formerly reserved to State regulation, or to individual or group action, and for breaking down established systems of racial segregation and setting up compulsive racial interassociation–in effect compulsive racial integration.
However, Professor Suthon notes with appreciation research assistance from Walter J. Wadlington. Eventually, Professor Wadlington was a professor at the University of Virginia Law School — and he was an outstanding family law professor and a big supporter of the expansion of family law (and a supporter of gay rights)!