Within a few days of the announcement President Kimball received more than a hundred letters from members expressing elation and gratitude. He received letters of appreciation from non-members, too, including a telegram from President Carter. He received about thirty negative letters, nearly all from non-Mormons, mostly calling him a fraud in claiming revelation or a traitor to his race. An anti-Mormon styling himself the “Prophet Onias” asserted in a “revelation” ten days after the announcement that giving priesthood to the Negro race exposed Church leaders as “frauds and false prophets” who had acted because “they feared the persecution that they may have received.” An anonymous flyer circulated a few weeks after the revelation arguing that because President Kimball had changed the teaching of earlier Church presidents, “either Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, or Spencer W. Kimball are liars.” As late as 1982, anti-Mormon or fundamentalist newspaper advertisements were still taking the same tack: because the Church abandoned a long-established “doctrine,” it was therefore false.