Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - Heoi i te whakatata mai o te pooti kawana o te tau 1960, i kii a Lake i te tuatahi kaore ia e tu hei kaitono mo te kawana na te kore o nga moni. Ko te tomokanga mai o te kaitohutohu ā-ture a te kāwanatanga, a Malcolm Seawell ki roto i te whakataetae, me te tīmatanga o nga whakaaturanga kai-kai i Greensboro
I puta ai te whakaaro o Lake, ā, ka pānuitia e ia tana tono mō te tari. I roto i tētahi pānuitanga, i tuhituhi ia, "Ko te whakaranu o ā mātau iwi nui e rua i roto i te akomanga, kātahi i roto i te kāinga, ehara i te mea e kore e taea, ā, kāore e whakaaetia". I hangaia e Lake te wehewehe hei kaupapa nui o tana kaupapa, e whakaeke ana i te whakahaere a Hodges mo te whakauru me te NAACP. I a Robert Burren Morgan e mahi ana hei Kaiwhakahaere Whakatairanga, he pai te mahi a Lake ki te tu tuarua i te kaupapa tuatahi a te Manapori ki a Terry Sanford, engari i te pooti tuarua i muri mai, i hinga a Sanford i a Lake ma te 50,000 pooti.