[1] Constance Baker Motley, a longtime civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, called Cox "the most openly racist judge ever to sit on a federal court bench" in the United States.
[5] Cox's remark of "I don't know who is telling these Negroes they can push people around just by getting into a line and acting like a bunch of chimpanzees," at a hearing on voter discrimination led to calls for his impeachment from New York Senator Jacob Javits and New Jersey Representative Peter Rodino.
[4] Cox served as Chief Judge from 1962 to 1971, assumed senior status on October 4, 1982, and his service was terminated on February 25, 1988, due to his death in Jackson.
[8] Cox's most famous case was United States v. Price (1965), the federal government's effort to prosecute suspected individuals involved in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
Cox also ruled against the use of symbolic speech by high school students promoting civil rights in Blackwell v. Issaquena Board of Education.