Meanwhile black activists had been increasing their local work throughout the South.
While they are waiting, three black activists approach them and try to shake Priest down.
Concurrently, he and some other black activists formed a political study group.
He has faded from black activist as a player to invisible executive.
"You've gone out and created a situation where black activists and others can say you're taking off after blacks."
Black activists have depicted the move as enforcement by intimidation.
These conventions by black activists were called to work for abolition and equal rights.
An alliance of environmentalists, historians and black activists are fighting that plan.
They also believe it will gloss over the atrocities committed by black activists.
Opposition was centered among the black activists of the civil rights movement, and college students at elite universities.