 They narrowly secured legislative approval of a commission chaired by Senator Perrow to craft the Commonwealth's response to "Brown II".Cochran was among the Perrow Commission's members, and later described its work in dismantling Massive Resistance for the Augusta Historical Society.Historian Katharine Brown considered Cochran "one of just a small handful of people that had the courage to buck the dominant opinion in Virginia of massive resistance...That took courage and was a remarkable thing that he did."