They want to cut the Indians' links with their white allies.
King's opposition cost him significant support among white allies, including President Johnson, union leaders and powerful publishers.
The Bradens were acclaimed by young student activists of the 1960s and among the civil rights movement's most dedicated white allies.
Occasionally, the newspaper received cash infusions from prominent white allies.
In the face of fraud and terror, the freedmen's white allies, north and south, abandoned them.
One might think the unstinting devotion of white liberal allies made the difference.
When black leaders speak to one another, even argue with one another, that doesn't mean they can't do the same with white allies.
They attacked and killed both freedmen and their white allies.
They were among the civil rights movement's most dedicated white allies.