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Time was, the 'will of the people' was that people of different races couldn't share the same water fountain, much less intermarry.
Remember when the 'majority' thought women shouldn't be allowed to vote?
That is one of the most bogus arguements ever accepted as historical fact.
The people were not the ones keeping the blacks enslaved, it was the elite. ALL of the abolitionists were part of "the people".
After the abolition of slavery, the popular will of the people was 'separate but equal', hence segregation. It took the courts to decide that separate was NOT, in fact, equal.