Caldwell recalls that Democratic Party employees coached him on how to register voters, indicating that the party was interested in cultivating black votes. The opposition had moles in their meetings, however, a surprise only exceeded by the fact that some people Caldwell respected were working for Republicans. Frustrated, Caldwell used his growing influence to form a splinter party called PRAD (he cannot remember what the acronym stands for). PRAD sounds like an African American-dominated group within the Democratic Party.