Booker T. Bonner, a member of the Freedom Now Committee, took issue with Governor John Connally's personal opposition to the public accommodations bill, who believed it invaded businessmen's private rights. (Connally instead pledged to aid the integration of all tax-supported facilities.) In response, Bonner drafted a petition calling for the Governor to initiate a series of executive orders banning all racial discrimination in state public facilities and employment, declaring a state accommodations law to ban discrimination in privately owned facilities open to the public, repealing all state segregation laws and immediately integrating all school districts, and enacting a $1.25 minimum wage. Bonner then delivered the petition to the Governor during the march, which the press referred to as "M-Day."