Muhammad Speaks Newspaper 1-15-1965

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Muhammad given to all disbelieving f o e s and hypocrites. The hypocrites around Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were given the same warnings.

And, they (the hypocrites) are prophesied in the Holy Qur-an (which is a very, very true book), to be the

|:j Mississippi :•: Fate of Hypocrites £ Nasser Tells West :•: UN Reports :;! The Congo :•: Editorial :•: University of Islam Educational Center same type of hypocrites and as saying the same words to the last Apostle and his true followers today, as they did to the former prophets and their followers.

My f o l l o w e r s here in America — and the hypo-

crites among them — are now being manifested to be the same as all others in the past. The hypocrites utter the same words, make mockery of the Messenger and his followers, and plan to do harm to us just as the

p. 2 p. 3 £: p. 5 p. 6 p. 7 • • • • p. 9 p. 11 & p. 13-14 hypocrites of the past did all other Messengers and their followers.

The Holy Qur-an says to the last Apostle: all Apostles before you were mocked and called liars, but Allah reminds the last Apostle to

think of His disapproval of other hypocrites and disbelievers.

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By Sylvester Leaks (Muhammad Speaks Correspondent) NEW YORK—With the formation of the MISSISSIPPI F R E E D O M DEMOCRATIC PARTY, the F R E E D O M NOW PARTY, and the recently organized F E D E R A T I O N FOR INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION, a Harlem-based group, the struggle for black freedom in America enters its final and, perhaps, most protracted and violent stage. It symbolizes a growing realization among the black masses that their struggle for freedom is inextricably linked with the acquisition of black power—political power, economic power — freedom rides, sit-ins, wade-ins, pray-ins to the contrary and not withstanding.

— Quite possibly Mrs. Vic- ing convention of the F E D - connection with the slaying toria Gray, a black woman ERATION F O R INDE- of Goodman, Schwerner, who ran for Congress in PENDENT POLITICAL AC- and Chaney."

Mississippi on the MFDP TION (FIPA), Mrs. G r a y The MFDP is challenging ticket and received m o r e said : the legality of these w h i t e than 40,000 black votes, best "The Mississippi Freedom Congressmen to represent expressed this awareness Democratic Party grew out Mississippi on the basis that when she stated why the of an absolute necessity of 42 per cent of the population MFDP was o r g a n i z e d . raking away the leaves so of Mississippi is black and Speaking here at the found- we could get down to t h e disenfranchised, t o t a l i n g ground. It grew out of the more than 450,000 eligible extreme need of a people black voters. for political expression."

The F E D E R A T I O N F O R Recalling some of the bit- INDEPENDENT POLITIter but ominous experiences CAL ACTION was organized a delegation of the MFDP in the words of Isaiah Robencountered in its efforts to inson, chairman of the group be seated at the Democrat- and head of the Harlem Paric Convention as the o n l y ents Committee, "to bring democratically-elected dele- about some effort to m o v e gation, Mrs. Gray said: power with power."

"At Atlantic City we were Robinson n o t e d further fought every step of the way that there are 400,000 black by the very same people we folks in Harlem and 270,000 had been led to believe were are not registered to vote. our friends."

"What is the reason f o r She related how they were this?" he asked. "We have jailed, beaten, fined, and an opportunity to capitalize how their cars were im- on it." pounded for voting in a FIPA was organized by MFDP mock election — and Robinson, Jesse Gray, t h e the F B I did nothing. rent strike leader; Rev. Mil"The day we announced ton A. Galamison, school that we were challenging the boycott organizer, and Bill M R S . F A N N I E L O U H A M E R : entire Congressional repre- Strickland of the student "I've been sick a n d tired so sentation from Mississippi," movement. Its founding conlong that I am sick and tired Mrs. Gray said, "The F B I vention was attended by of being sick a n d t i r e d . " arrested the 21 people in more than 100 community

M R S . V I C T O R I A G R A Y : "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party grew out of . . . necessity of raking a w a y the leaves so w e could get down to the ground. It grew out of the extreme need of the people for political expression."

leaders from all over New York City.

Bill Strickland observed that: "The Negro problem is a total problem of society. No significant movement w i l l develop until masses are involved. Until there is black power, we won't have any integration that's meaningful — for power is the only thing A m e r i c a understands."

Referring to the housing problem of black people in Harlem, Jesse Gray noted that "25 per cent of people in slums lose their jobs because of lack of heat, hot

water. Medical bills are up 600 per cent; gas bills are up 500 per cent. Each slumlord saves an average of $3,000 yearly by freezing tenants."

It was Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, however, a black woman who also ran for Congress on the MFDP ticket, summing up the mood of the black masses when she said: "I've been sick and tired so long that I am sick and t i r e d of being sick and tired."

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Is 'Square Peg' Mississippi an Illegal U.S. State?

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Some people claim that the white supremacy-inspired terror and murder of recent years in Mississippi give concrete substance to the longheld conviction that the state is not like other states in the Union—even unlike Alabama or any other Southern state—and the reason may be that Mississippi is, indeed, a "foreign land" holding an illegal membership in the United States of America.

The charge that Mississip- day of its formal admittance pi is illegally in the Union to the Union—Dec. 10, 1817. has been made by t h r e e It a l m o s t immediately "Congresswomen - elect" of launched into a " s t a t e ' s t h e Mississippi Freedom rights" campaign—anci after Democratic Party (MFDP). John C. Calhoun's death in The "Magnolia State" has 1850 and under the subsebeen a "square peg in a quent leadership of Jefferson round hole" almost from the Davis, "began to rival South Carolina as leader of the Southern constitutionalists in MUHAMMAD SPEAKS the defense of the rights of Published Bi-Weekly states," t h e Encyclopedia Britannica observed.

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an effort to keep black men in t h e chains of physical slavery.

After the war, the first session of the Mississippi legislature — Oct. 16, 1865 — "at once enacted laws for the protection of the white people of the state, their homes and social order . . . ," it was explained by the Encyclopedia Britannica.

However, the F e d e r a l government disagreed with this interpretation of t h e hastily-enacted laws, stating that, in fact, they were "an effort to restore slavery . . ."

In the action of December, 1964, Mrs. F a n n i e Lou Hamer, Mrs. Annie Devine and Mrs. V i c t o r i a Gray charged in briefs served on Mississippi's Congressmenelect that under an act of Congress, passed in 1870, which re-admitted Mississippi to the Union, the s t a t e pledged never to alter or amend its constitution so ". .

as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote who are entitled to vote by the constitution h e r e i n recognized . . . " The briefs further charged that under Mississippi's 1869 constitution, the only voting requirements were age and residence. An 1890 constitution, adopted a f t e r Reconstruction, openly nullified the 1870 resolution and disenfranchised most of t h e state's Negro citizens, the MFDP leaders declared.

Of this constitution, t h e E n c y c l o p e d i a Britannica stated: "The chief special object of the present constitution, adopted Nov. 1, 1890, was to preserve in a legal manner the supremacy of the whites over the ignorant Negro minority . . . " In 1890, there were 80,000 more registered N e g r o e s

than whites in Mississippi, w h i l e in 1961, registered whites outnumbered registered Negroes by 475,000!

Total N e g r o registration dropped during this period from 189,000 in 1890 to 23,000 in 1961.

Mesdames Hamer, Devine and Gray charged that the nearly total disenfranchisement occurred because Mississippi h a s "repeatedly passed laws and conducted a virtual reign of terror designed to keep Negro citizens from exercising the ballot."

Observers, toying with the possibilities if the MFDP charges were supported in Federal court—there is little likelihood of t h i s actually h a p p e n i n g—Mississippi would become probably the poorest "sovereignty" in the world, since it would have to give up all the Federal financial and other aids and lose, perhaps, most of its Northern investments.

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" S u r e l y t h e h y p o c r i t e s strive to d e c e i v e A l l a h , a n d H e s h a l l requite their deceit to t h e m . " " S u r e l y the hypocrites a r e in the lowest stage of the fire, a n d you shall not find a helper for them except those w h o repent a n d a m e n d a n d h o l d fast to A l l a h a n d a r e s i n c e r e i n their o b e d i e n c e to A l l a h . T h e s e a r e w i t h t h e b e l i e v e r s a n d A l l a h w i l l g r a n t t h e b e lievers a mighty r e w a r d . " H o l y Q u r - a n ; C h a p t e r 4, V e r s e s 140, 142, 145, a n d V e r s e 138.

and my followers. They did not know they could not have, today, such a perfect stop us with weapons. The fulfillment of the prophecy hypocrites always will be of the Qur-an in the recent the losers. outbreak of h y p o c r i s y This chief hypocrite took a among my followers. The group with him to build a chief hypocrite of them all— "Mosque in opposition" to and the worst of them all— me, and filled it with all has never stopped in his at- types of wickedness and distempt to do harm to my believers like himself. He mission. wishes the praise of the peoI pie and not of God. He has The Holy Qur-an teaches: l said everything imaginable they will fight you with their against me, which likely will tongues and even with their hurt him and those who folhands. So their tongues were low him more than he not sufficient; they wanted thinks. He wants the world quick action. So, the chief to recognize him as a qualihypocrite resorted to arming fied leader. He should seek his followers, as well as the recognition of Allah. Alhimself, with .30 caliber lah is the One who makes weapons. Knowing that my a leader for his people. followers and I had not resorted to such weapons, they This chief hypocrite is not intended to spring a surprise with Allah; if he were with attack by mowing us down. Allah, he would be with me.

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that he cannot trust a religion and cannot trust a God who teaches when to act. He wants to act when he is ready to act, rather than depend upon a God Who will act in His own good time.

He does not wait on a God like that. Many other such fools passed away in great dishonor and shame long before this chief hypocrite. No weapons (as it is written) formed against me will prosper as long as Allah is with me and I am with Allah, because the twain will never break. We always shall be together against the enemy, and together for the believers. Some of the hypocrites have come to know all of these things, but they must be punished.

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T E A C H I N G IN his own home mosque in C h i c a g o , The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, is spending the longest winter sojourn in C h i c a g o in several years. A warm winter welcome is being given to the Messenger by friends, visitors and worshipers alike throughout his stay.

An Open Letter to the Black People of America great is this love of Allah are his living days — as in ing; they have been menBy Anne A l i • for us, that it puts the spirit the cases of Moses, Jesus tally dead to the knowledge Secretary to of love into us, making us and Abraham. Neither they of self. If our people would The Honorable Elijah Muhammad I one in Allah. We then want nor any other prophet had a think properly, clearly and Hunger, whether for food or knowledge, must be con- | for our brothers and sisters retirement plan. effectively, they would acquered or you perish. When you are the possessor of j what we want for ourselves. cept Islam — and success Though Messenger Muknowledge, love and power, there is a complete life: the | It is only a hypocrite who and happiness would be inknowledge of your God, your religion and your history, comes in without the love of hammad does not have any evitable. This is true regardcollege or university dethe love of your brethren, and the power to build for your- Allah or the love of Islam, less of obstacles, irritations self a glorious future. While you can stand still in a His true religion. Knowing grees, he speaks words of and annoyances. great wisdom that even the flowing stream, you cannot do so in the world of men this, the greatest service we The so - called American and women. Our people have suffered inferiority, and can render is to adhere to famous scientists, philosoinferiority rules the mentality and is recognized as a the words and teaching of phers and scholars cannot Negro has thought of every disprove or dispute. He does possible angle, so why not sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment. This is present Messenger Muhammad. not speak the language of a think of that so-called imbecause of the lack of knowledge of self. scholar — his language is possible angle: why not try The root problem of our If you make people think plain and simple — but the Islam? There is no shame people is very simply stated: and righteousness breaking jthey are thinking, they will language of truth is always involved in admitting that they are blind, deaf and out against him like a tor- | love you. But on the other J simple and unadorned. something you have always dumb. Blind because they nado. Even so, we strive to j hand, if you really make | ; believed to be the truth is Messenger Muhammad is i them think — as Messenger j have eyes, yet they do not enhance our Nation. T h e : Muhammad has done—they condemned for calling the I not. On the contrary, it is see; deaf because they have j the first sign that you are ears but do not hear, and passes. The Messenger is j will hate you. Messenger jwhite race a race of devils, starting to make the effort though the beginning of wisdumb because they h a v e like the earth; he is stomped Muhammad has taught our | to think for yourself, and in mouths but do not speak. on, trampled on and walked people for 33 years, and— [dom is to call things by their fact — to think clearly is a right names.

A friend is one How do we go about elimi- on, but yet from him comes sad, but true — a Messen; ger has no set time to teach. who warns you. Yet, be- proud step forward. nating this problem? that which we need to sur- He cannot say, as a doctor, cause of Messenger MuhamAll of our people, as well For 33 years, Messenger vive: the message of Allah. lawyer or businessman, that mad's warning us, he is as those other than our peoM u h a m m a d has been ple, will soon come to know When we accept Islam, we he will retire at any given condemned. preaching salvation to his Our people have not been that there is no God but Alpeople — and now, right at are accepting A l l a h and time. A messenger retires the break of day, is a dark automatically, we begin, as when his work is completed thinking. The way you think lah, and that Elijah Muhamhour, with every conceivable Allah, in love, peace a n d and/or his message is de- is the way you live. There- mad is the Messenger of liar and disbeliever of truth! unity among each other. So livered. His working days fore, they have not been liv- Allah. d

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That is the hell that the hypocrites and disbelievers will suffer, and it begins with their feeling of fear and I excitement—fear that someone is going to do harm to them (as they plan to harm those they oppose). There is no fear for a true believer, nor shall he grieve. This grief of the hypocrites, according to the Holy Qur-an, j prostrates them and makes them wish that they w e r e j dead. They even wish for I someone to kill them.

seeks to oppose the Messenger and those who believe in him and his God. Their punishment — says the Holy Qur-an in several places;—is grief, regret, shame and disgrace. I will never forget this hypocrite's hateful acts against me.

If he is the last of the 22 million, I shall remind him of his evil and wicked acts done to me in return for the good that I did for him. He could not have r i s e n up But Allah, the Holy Quragainst me if I had not given ] an says, will not permit anyhim so much knowledge of Allah and His religion. When j one to kill them, because I made him a leader and a | death would take them out teacher among the people, of their chastisement a n d he felt proud. He now thinks | grief. They will not bow in i that he should be elected ! submission to the will of AItop-man, but I am sure that | lah and obedience in followhe will be appointed the low- ing His Messenger, a n d after a year or so under this est man. i condition, they are classified i He went, first, on the side • with the devil, to be desof the Muslims, and then on troyed in hell-fire — the final the side of the devils, and end of both. again on the side of the MusThe Bible's last book, un- j lims and against the devils.

He is — as the Holy Qur-an ! der the title of The Revelasays — neither this nor that. tions of John, prophesies a His greatest desire is for grief falling upon the folsomeone to declare him as ] lowers (the so-called Ameritheir leader. He is insane '< can Negro) of the symbolic for leadership, and disgraces beast (the white man) who himself for that office. As I I are in the beast's names and have reneatedly taught — who worship and believe in and the scholars and scien- ' the white man's religion, tists will agree with me — c a l l e d Christianity. They hypocrites then was my own that the so - called Negro worship the white man as brother, and another was a must have divine leadership though he were God above Minister by the name of today. Their leader must be the Supreme God of heaven Augustus Muhammad, my divinely appointed, not self- and earth. They also wor- top assistant at that time in made or made by the people. ship the white man's leader the Chicago Mosque No. 2.

This is universally known. I of the Christian religion, the They felt proud after they am that man, divinely ap- Pope in Rome. This is men- had acquired a little wistioned in Revelations, 14:4. dom, and thought that they pointed by Allah.

The grief of the hypocrites were more powerful than According to the Bible and is such that even the victim the teacher.

Holy Qur-an, punishment is is not a b l e to say his sure to overtake hypocrites prayers. In the first place, I have been told, directly and those who seek to op- God has closed the door and by some of the hypocrites pose Allah and His Apostle. does not hear the prayers of that they think it is time for I quote here a verse from the hypocrites w h e n He a change and that a youngthe Holy Qur-an: s e n d s chastisement upon er man should take my "Do they not know that them. This is in store for place. And they even go so whoever acts in opposimy hypocrites and shall be- far as to designate a person tion to Allah and His fall them at any time—just whom they think should take Apostle, he shall surely as it did the hypocrites of my place. have the fire of hell to 1935. We actually witnessed I look at them and say, abide in it, that is the this type of chastisement within myself. "What a fool grievous abasement." that fell upon those hypo- you are! How can you apcrites in 1935. One of the point someone to take my Holy Quran 9:63 place when I did not appoint myself? God, Almighty, appointed me. You are foolish to play with God's mission and His Messenger to the ON U P H O L S T E R I N G mentally-dead nation. You take it lightly that you can AND REUPHOLSTERING vote out. put down or shoot D r a p e r i e s . . . S l i p - C o vers down God's Messenger, and Plastic C o v e r * . . . Rugs set up another of your Furniture Finishing choice. What will you do OLD FURNITURE MADE with the next group of hypoTO L O O K LIKE N E W crites who may not like the man of your choice? They may shoot both you and your man down and t a k e ALSO MOVING over." ;

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one in Allah, and Allah is one in the Apostle. So, when you look at one, you see both; when you hear one speak, you hear both, because they both are as one in their agreement for t h e right and against the disbeliever. Therefore, Allah brings this to pass. As it was in Noah's day, so shall it be in the day of the last Apostle, whom God raises from the mentally-dead Negroes in North America.

i No. 3—the victory of the j (The chastisement of the Messenger over them.

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of Egypt told the greatest Western power—the United I said, referring to Egyptian States of America—it could take its so-called foreign aid aid to the Congolese paand go to hell, a millennium was marked in the affairs ; triots. of Africa and the West, which many had predicted.

"Those who don't like it It has taken more than j can go drink sea water," 1,000 years for a black Afri- ser said, speaking in Port j the fiery Nasser told his can nation to muster the Said. "We are ready to cut I critics. power and dignity to de- our rations and minimize "If the Mediterranean is nounce the pressure at- our daily consumption to I not enough for them," he tempts of the W e s t , but keep our independence. continued, "we can g i v e Egypt has indicated to t h e "We do not accept pres- them the Red Sea to drink, world that the undeveloped sure and silky talk," Presi- ! too." nations may have developed dent Nasser continued. "We The shocked W e s t e r n faster than anyone had anti- are short-tempered. This is press made much of the fact cipated. our nature. We have our ; that Nasser's "go drink sea By telling the world he not dignity, and we are not pre- water" is an Egyptian slang equivalent of only was going to give aid pared to sell it for even a I expression ! "Go to hell." and arms to the Congolese billion pounds." patriots fighting a g a i n s t Nasser ripped Congolese Meanwhile, A l g e r i a ' s Western-backed puppet fig- "Premier" Moise Tshombe ; President Ahmed Ben Bella, ureheads and hired w h i t e as a puppet of the West and ! without making an open deckillers, Nasser broke with, compared t h e November laration, has promised that the 'bow and smile" tradi- U.S.-Belgian-British alleged the Congolese patriots will tion of diplomacy and con- "rescue mission" as an ag- receive full support from his fronted the West with anI gression similar to the 1956 ; country. Other black African uneasy dilemma.

• attack on the Suez. nations believed to be giving "If America wants to give "It, is inconceivable that aid to the Congolese patriots us aid at the price of domi- the Congolese people are ; include Kenya, Mali, Ghana, nating our policy, I say we subjected to aggression and Uganda, Burundi and t h e are sorry," President Nas- we do not help them," he : Congo (Brazzaville).

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T H E S T R O N G E S T opposition to Western domination of colonial regions now comes from these two leaders of A s i a and A f r i c a . A t left, President Sukarno of Indonesia with President Nasser of Egypt. Here they stand in C a i r o at recent conference of non-aligned nations.

NEW YORK — If passage of the Civil Rights Bill has obscured the fact that the economic plight of the Negro remains tragic, Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, cites facts and figures in a national magazine article to emphasise that there has been little progress in the meat-and-potatoes areas over the past 20 ytars.

"For instance, the average Second World War can creNegro family income in 1962 ate a Domestic Marshall was but 55 per cent that of Plan which will enable Negro a white family i n c o m e," | cttizeni t? compete in the Young stated, "a decline of free enterprise marketplace. two per cent in the previous Ironically, critics of the Urdecade. The typical family ban League's program — struggles to make ends meet those who deplored "special on a paltry $3,233 a year — compensation," even for a about $60 a week—and three- I brief, 10-year period, h a v e fifths of all families and sinignored the irony of Hungle individuals fall below the garian and Cuban refugees poverty line of $3,000." for whom special effort was Young pointed out that one exerted and who are rising out of e v e r y five Negro | faster in this nation today as workers in America today a whole than Negro citizens! was unemployed, and that "A billion-dollar War on three-fourths of all N e g r o i Poverty is barely a beginworkers were employed in J ning. Its plan to take 40,000 the u n s k i l l e d and semi- | of the nation's 1,000,000 idle skilled categories, facing the youth off our streets and threat of automation. place them i n - t r a i n i n g "For example, over the camps for the first year is past several years, 30,000 clearly inadequate, however Negro elevator operators in noble its intention. There is New York City alone have abundance in this nation sufbeen replaced . . . and rail- ficient to meet the critical roading—long a large reser- human needs of all our citivoir of jobs for Negroes — is zens, but we must have the drying up due to airlines courage to invest in our peocompetition." ple, in our cities, in our eduvocational ' The N a t i o n a l Urban cational a n d League official then spelled plants, colleges, and instituout how the Negro citizen tions if the great masses of can be "elevated to a condi- poor locked into pockets of tion of dignity and opportu- poverty in urban slums and rural shanties are to be elenity. He wrote: "A nation which invested vated to a condition of dig$17 billion to restore war- nity and opportunity.

"How can this best be ravaged Europe after the

Guess Who Chiang Supports?

T A I P E I , Taiwan—In an announcement here that surprised no one and left the world virtually unruffled, President Chiang Kai-shek, regarded by many as Asia's worst "Uncle Tom," promised to throw the weight of his nation behind the machinations of the man considered Africa's worst "Uncle Tom," Leopoldville Congo's Moise Tshombe.

President Chiang pledged moral support to the Leo- his government will defeat poldville regime of Tshombe the so-called "rebels" in the and President Joseph Kasa- eastern section of the Congo.

Meanwhile, the Taipei revubu and the white mercenaries who h a v e b e e n gime has signed an agreeslaughtering black Congolese i ment of technical cooperapatriots on orders f r o m - tion with the Leopoldville Tshombe. j government. A 12-member The expression of support Chinese farm demonstration followed delivery here of let- team will be sent to the Confers to President C h i a n g' go for two years, f r o m President Kasavubu Minister of Economic Afand p u p p e t "Premier" fairs Yang Chi-tseng said the Tshombe. agreement may lead to coThe letters were delivered operation in other fields. Sigby Congolese Minister of Ag-1 natories to the agreement riculture Albert Kalonjidtun- were Minister Yang and Minga, who said he was certain ister Kalonjidtunga.

achieved among Negro citizens?

• "Negro citizens need a broadening and deepening of the basic concept of e q u a l opportunity to include recognition of the need for special effort to overcome three centuries of historic handicaps.

• "Negro citizens need society to make a realistic appraisal of their potential and worth and to assist them in developing to the fullest.

• "Negro citizens need not schools that are equal to the general inadequate p r e v a i l i n g educational norms, but the finest schools staffed by dedicated and highly qualified teachers expert in working with disadvantaged pupils in an integrated setting. © "Negro citizens need income maintenance help sufficient for t h e m to break the poverty cycle which is more often ragstc-rags than rags-to-riches.

• "Negro citizens need "role models" not just in baseball and on the list of UN delegates, but in every corporate office, radio and TV network, at all levels and types of employment.

We need qualified Negroes holding top jobs instead of just mops.

"Negro citizens need an opportunity to breathe the pure air of freedom of reste d C o r j t i m t e d on page

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(MS) UN and Foreign Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N. Y . , Dec. 23—The grave tragedy taking place in the Congo today, highlights the Program for Peace and International Co-operation coming out of the Second Conference of Heads of State or Governments of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Cairo from October 5-10, 1964, according to Ambassador Taieb Slim, Tunisia's Permenant Representative to the United Nations and a working member of the Non-Aligned Conference.

Observing t h a t the conferees p o i n t e d out their tion of imperialism, colonialdeep convictions t h a t , in ism a n d neo - colonialism, present circumstances, man- plus the absolute prohibition kind must regard peaceful of the threat or the use of co-existence as the only way force, direct or disguised. to strengthen world peace, The Conference of Nonwhich must be based on free- Aligned States is a direct dom* equality and justice be- outgrowth of a brief confertween peoples within a new ence held at Belgrade in Sepframework of peaceful and tember, 1961, attended by harmonious relations be- President Nasser of U A R , tween the states and the na- President Sukarno of IndotioiK, of the world. Ambassa- nesia. Marshall Tito of Yugodor Slim noted further the slovia, and Prime Minister fact t h a t the principle of Nehru of India. p e a c e f u 1-co-existence is L a t e r in 1961, 25 nonbased on the right of all peo- aligned countries were in ples to be free and to choose Belgrade, along with four or their own political, economic five Latin American counand social systems accord- tries, which attended as obing to their own national servers. Out of this group identities and ideals—and is came the Declaration of Belopposed to any form of for- grade. However, no organieign domination. zational machinery was set The Non-Aligned Confer- up. ence agreed, according to In March, 1964, from CoAmbassador S l i m , t h a t lombo, Ceylon, letters were peaceful co-existence cannot sent to those who had atbe fully achieved throughout tended the Belgrade Conferthe world without the aboli- ence to see if there was any

support for calling another conference. In Colombo a 10-member working committee was set up and in a week, an agenda was prepared, with a list of new members a n d standing committees.

According to an Organization of African Unity proposal, all independent African countries were invited. Because the A r a b countries were non-aligned, they were invited. F r o m Asia, Laos was added and from Europe; Finland, S w e d e n, Austria and Ireland.

Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago were added, along with the Latin America countries —observers who had previously attended—with Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina. The invitees met in Cairo in October, 1964, preceded by a Foreign Minister's Conference commencing on October 1, followed by the meeting of the Heads of State or Government. Fortyeight full members and 11 Observers were in attendance.

The Organization of NonAligned States has no permanent secretariat or similar organizational machinery. However, the president of the organization, who is President Nasser of U A R , is designated to carry on the

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In this connection, President Nasser, on behalf of the organization, urged upon the Secretary-General and the the G e n e r a l Assembly to make all efforts to stop the hanging of the South African freedom fighters, which was successful.

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dence. America's hundred Harlems, as places of doom and defeat, must be destroyed. Their people cannot endure life in them as they are presently constituted.

Negro families who rise into the middle-class b r a c k e t must have the same opportunity to leave the ghetto as o t h e r low-income groups had. The worn out nostrum that Negroes will follow other nationality groups out of the ghettos has been thoroughly discredited.

"Communities which were ports-of-entry for Poles and .

Jews have become prisons for Negroes, places of systematic exploitation and despair, where unscrupulous realtors wring tens of millions of dollars annually out of Negro families living in slums — which may explain the ease with which real estate men contribute to housing lobbies created to destroy fair housing proposals.

"Negro citizens must be included in all public and private boards and commissions having a role in the shaping of policy in employment, housing, education health and welfare services.

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Flood Holocaust Wrecks Holidays

By Mark Stevens

During the season of the celebration of the birth of Christ, nature has decreed further tragedy for the northwestern United States.

California counted 19 flood mon rivers at the northern dead, and Oregon reported tip of California.

About 100 passengers on 18 deaths from flood action as more snow, wind, and two Greyhound busses found rain were forecast for the themselves s t r a n d e d by northern California f l o o d highway washouts last Monarea today, adding to the day after a lunch stop at the suffering of hundreds still Terrace Garders resort 10 miles south of Garberville marooned. on U.S. Highway 101 in CaliThe Red Cross l i s t e d fornia's Humboldt county.

16,300 families as suffering About half of them still were major losses to homes, busi- awaiting rescue today. ness or farms in Oregon, "They're beginning to run California, Idaho, and Washshort of food," reported Wilington. liam Sowle, a civil defense Damage was estimated by director at Yreka. A storm leaders of relief and rescue that dropped two feet of operations at almost one bil- snow on Yreka yesterday lion dollars. halted helicopter flights in Five hundred persons — the area. "We'll have to air miners, loggers and t h e i r lift s u p p 1 i e s or evacuate families — were marooned soon," Sowle said. in s e v e r a l communities Continued snow is prealong the Klamath and Sal- dicted for the area.

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those of white citizens, reflecting a tragic absence of pre - natal care.

"Negro citizens must redouble their efforts to better educate and t r a i n themselves for the new responsibilities which equal opportunities will require of them.

They must march not only to the picket lines but to the libraries; they must prepare themselves for the stiffening competition of a no-holds

barred marketplace in every area.

"Negro c i t i z e n s must make a s p e c i a l effort to strengthen their family life; to wipe out the disorganization which has afflicted so many. They must overcome not o n l y subtle barriers of discrimination but their own shortcomings as individuals and achieve higher levels of emotional, spiritual and educational attainments which are incumbent upon any pioneer group."

mercenaries to kill blacks in Africa? Of course, the decision to help pay for those mercenaries was made at the cabinet level. Or did President Johnson, after receiving 95 per cent plus of the Afro - American vote, make this decision himself?

Or was this decision made by the War Strategy Board?

(HNS) UN and Foreign Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N . Y . Dec. 17 — Despite the weeping and wailing in the United Nations Security Council by American, British and Belgian orators over their "rescuing" their nationals; in spite of their finely phrased sentences and sentiments; in spite of a sympathetic press, radio and TV coverage—what the United States, Belgium and Britain have done and are doing i n the Congo is gradually coming out: a side of Western, imperialist power conduct and character that has never What the United States, before come under such hard-nosed public inspection and Britain and Belgium want discussion. most to talk about is the For the first time, Afri- tive after less than two "legality" of their entering hours of talks. the civil strife. They want to cans are sitting across the tell how they were invited in Because of the foregoing, table f r o m these Africans and their by the "legal government" E u r opeans j supporters lay the responsi- of the Congo. What they a n d Ameri- j bility for the loss of life of want most to talk about is cans and dis- the white hostages squarely the "illegality of taking hoscussing t h e on the s h o u l d e r s of the tages." What they want to Americans, British and Bel- talk about are the "Geneva "facts of life j gians.

Conventions" and the "proin A f r i c a " ] tocol against taking hosOf course, the Belgians, tages," neither of which the without^ "s c ratching jBritish and Americans a r e ] Africans — fighting for their willing to argue these points existence — ever h e a r d their heads", all day and all night. As a about. And anyway, just for or "scraping \ matter of fact, that is exact- the record, this is not a war ly what they want to do. —declared by the Congress their feet."

The issues What they don't want is to of the United States, the Howard are drawn i have people look into their only body authorized to dearound a factual situation brutal slaughter of innocent clare war—a war entitling that is tailor-made for t h e Congolese men, women and its wagers to invoke the Gewhite orator. There is noth- j children prior to November neva Conventions or t h e ing that a white man can | 24, the day of the paratroop protocol against hostages. wax m o r e eloquent over j drop on Stanleyville.

What they most want to than "defending white worn-! Further, what they w a n t talk about is the failure of anhood" and "humanitar- j least of all to talk about the African States to furnish ian" activities. their support of that proven military aid to Tshombe.

Eighteen African coun- \ traitor to the Congo and to Every African country, with independence, the possible exception of tries, members of the United A f r i c a n Nations, joined by four non- Tshombe; their utter de- Nigeria, knows that the givAfrican U n i t e d Nations fenselessness in s e n d i n g ing of assistance to Tshommembers, have catagorical- planes, machine guns, mo- be is giving assistance- to ly challenged the premise tors, small firearms a n d the enemies of African indethat the 'Belgian paratroop military personnel to fight a pendence, and they know drop on Stanleyville, from people who have practically that it will be giving assistAmerican planes, piloted by nothing but their fighting ance to those who are crushAmericans and supported by | hearts and bows and arrows ing the "rightful aspirations" of the Congolese peothe British, was a 'humani- '• to fight back with. ple for self determination, tarian' act."

They want least of all to and they are not going to Instead, they insist, it was talk about the sheer immor- do it. part of the military strategy ality of h i r i n g "white to take the stronghold of the killers" from South Africa, Several weeks ago, we Congolese patriots, who nev- Rhodesia and other Euro- called attention to the fact er could have been taken by pean and American areas. that the United States was the white mercenaries and What they want least of all on an utterly defenseless the Congolese army, in spite to talk about the utter des- and dangerous venture in of their support by United truction of hundreds of Con- the Congo. Further, it often States fighter planes, trucks, golese and their villages. If has been pointed that the somachine guns, motors a n d it is wrong for a rich indi- called "rebels" of the Congo other weapons of destruc- vidual to hire a thug to kill w o u l d not always fight his enemy, does it become alone. Well, today t h o s e tion. right for a rich country to observations are a reality.

They point out several sa-1 hire killers to slaughter peo- Already, A l g e r i a , UAR, lient facts. Among them is! ple of another country they Ghana, Guinea, Mali, a n d the absolutely undisputed don't like, or because t h e y many other countries in Affact that not a single hostage are black or because they rica have come to the reswas killed until after the j have some coveted riches in cue of the "patriots" of the paratroop drop; the uncon- their lands? Or is it forgiven Congo to h e l p them rid tradicted orders of the com- because the killers we hire themselves of a "s t o o g e" manders of the city "that i are just " k i l l i n g some government. The Russians not a single white was to be j niggers?" and Chinese have expressed touched," under penalty of their sympathy for t h e s e being shot; the abandonHow can the leaders of people. ment of the supposed "Hu- our government criticize or m a n i t a r i a n mission" before punish Mississippi sheriffs, Security Council decisions it was completed (which the ! deputy sheriffs, policemen or not, a terrible war is just Africans claim was aban- and Klu Klux Klanners for beyond our door-steps, a n d doned because of world pub-1murdering "black people" this war will surely spread lie opinion.), and the aban- in their country while Presi- to the rest of the world. We donment of the negotiations dent Johnson, Dean Rusk have no one to blame but by the American representa- and Adlai Stevenson h i r e ourselves. :

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The time of prayer and Note: The morning part called FARD called TRADITION

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When A Negro Is Murdered... m can't zeach A DECISION.'

The morning prayer being obligatory is called FARD meaning the early morning. The Great Mahdi have taken FARD as a name for himself corresponding with the time of His coming—which is in the early days (or years) of the seventh thousand year. The early morning being the first part of the seventh thousand years, and the year under the name Millennium (which the Christians say means the 1,000 years Christ will reign on the earth).

This is the 1,000 years in which it will take to restore peace and honor, after the removal of peace breakers.

This time also includes the birth of a new nation from the mentally dead. However, the Name FARD fits the context.

We are reminded that this prayer is made obligatory, it is also binding upon the Believers (Muslims) in Allah (God) to obey Him. For in that 1,000 year of Millennium, the disbelievers will cease to be. And to those who live in that time it shall be binding upon them to serve and obey One God: Fard Muhammad, the Great Mahdi, or Allah in Person. The Mahdi must restore the Kingdom of Islam, and He must weed out from the kingdom of Islam all disbelievers. This He will do in His time.

FARD is a name many of the scholars have said is not one of the 99 attributes but still it is a Name that is Selfindependent, and One which means that-the Believers are obligated to obey. We can see clearly why He took this Name (FARD) for Himself.

We are now living in the early morning of that seventh thousand years. The world of evil was given 6,000 years to reign over the righteous. Now. since their time expired in 1914, as all the religious scientists agree, we are in the seven-thousandth year since the creation of Adam, or the Caucasian race. It shall be binding upon you to serve and and obey the Great Mahdi (FARD MUHAMMAD) or else be cut off from the people of righteousness. , AH praise is due to our Lord and Saviour, Master Fard Muhammad. To Him do we submit; to Him we fly for refuge from the evils of Yakub's civilization.

And remember, the time that we are living in is the end of the world we have known, and the coming in of the world of Allah—the world peace and security. Having this !

In mind, we must be mindful of the things that are written, j HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss.—Stung by Negro victories in The following verse warns the powers of this world that County Agricultural Stabilization Committee elections, their lacks existed before and Allah destroyed them: "Travel in the land, then see what was the end of white supremacists increased their campaign of intimidathose before! most of them were polytheists." Holy Qur- tion and harrassment in two Mississippi counties. an 30:42.

An Ashland, Miss., newsWe read of the history of the flood that drowned a dis-' paper, the Southern Advo- in Benton County's Commuobedient people who refused to take warnings from Allah's cate, refused December 12 to nity B. * prophet, Noah. The following verse warns you and me, the print an advertisement from In Holmes County, tenant so-called American Negroes, that after nearly one hundred three Negro farmers who farmer L a r m a r Smith, years we have not been able to see that Christianity is not w o n important committee an upright religion; and it further warns us that on that seats in the December 4 elected chairman of his Community Committee, reported day we will be separated. These days now approach you ASC elections. his farm rent was doubled and me, SO MAKE A DECISION: and the owner of the land deThe advertisement — the "Then set thyself, being upright, to the right remanded full payment at once three farmers were prepared ligion before there come from Allah the day which instead of installments as he to pay cash—said they "do cannot be averted: on that day they will be sepahad done in the past. not intend to serve our race rated! Qur-an 30:43. exclusively. We regard this Smith said he overheard (election) as an opportunity the Holmes County sheriff to serve all citizens of Com- and other white men discuss munity B without regard to jailing him on December 7, race as g o o d, honest and when ASC election results true committeemen." w e r e announced. He also The p r o p o s e d ad was said a truck he used on his

By JOHN H E N D R I K C L A R K E signed by L . B. Paige, Cla- small farm was repossessed "TRADITIONAL C U L T U R E S " b y G e o r g e M . F o s t e r , bon Jackson and Sarah Rob- while he was talking to his H a r p e r a n d B r o t h e r s . N e w Y o r k . 292 pp. $6.50. inson, who took the three top creditors about payments. ( A N P ) — T h i s book g i v e s a g e n e r a l p i c t u r e of the t r a d i - positions in the ASC election In Valley View, near Can-

Racist Harassment in the Mississippi Farm Belt

t i o n a l r u r a l c o m m u n i t y , t h e g e n e r a l n a t u r e of c u l t u r e c h a n g e a n d t h e role a n d p r o b l e m s of t h e A m e r i c a n s p e c i a l ist w o r k i n g i n n e w l y d e v e l o p e d a r e a s . " U M B U N D U F O L K T A L E S F R O M A N G O L A " by Merlin E n n i s , B e a c o n P r e s s , B o s t o n , M a s s a c h u s e t t s . 316 p p . $7.50.

T h e c o l l e c t i n g , e d i t i n g a n d t r a n s l a t i n g of t h e s e folk t a l e s i s a n o t h e r i m p o r t a n t c o n t r i b u t i o n to the g r o w i n g body of l i t e r a t u r e r e l a t i n g to A f r i c a t h a t s h o w s s o m e r e s p e c t f o r the A f r i c a n point of v i e w . M e r l i n E n n i s , w h o c o m p i l e d this book, s p e n t m o s t of the t i m e b e t w e e n 1905 a n d 1944 i n t h e h i n t e r l a n d of A n g o l a . H e h a s t r a n s l a t e d t h e " s c r i p t u r e s " of the U m b u n d u s p e a k i n g p e o p l e to t h e e n r i c h m e n t of t h e w o r l d s t o r e h o u s e of i n d i g e n o u s l i t e r a t u r e . " N I G E R I A N F O L K T A L E S " told to a n d e d i t e d b y B a r b a r a K. a n d W a r r e n S . W a l k e r , R u t g e r s U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s , N e w B r u n s w i c k , N . J . 113 p p . $4.00.

P r o f e s s o r a n d M r s . W a l k e r h a v e w r i t t e n a n a c c o u n t of the r o l e of folk t a l e s I n N i g e r i a n t r i b a l l i f e , w h e r e t h e telling of s u c h n a r r a t i v e s i s a s e p a r a t e a n d e s t a b l i s h e d s o c i a l a r t . T h e s t o r i e s told h e r e p r o v e t h a t t h e s t r o n g o r a l t r a d i tion of N i g e r i a r e m a i n s a g r e a t r e s e r v o i r of f o l k l o r e a n d i n d i g e n o u s s t o r y t e l l i n g i n s p i t e of t h e I n f l u e n c e of W e s t e r n culture a n d education.

ton, a cotton gin owned by a white man was burned to the ground December 13. The gin owner had refused to comply with requests f r o m white racists that he refuse to gin cotton belonging to Otha Williams, local Negro active in Madison County's ASC elections.

In Atlanta, a civil rights group urged Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman to "investigate intimidation and harassment connected with Mississippi ASC elections."

At a recent meeting of Mississippi farmers from a 12-county area decided to contest ASC elections in five counties, even though Negroes did win some posts.

They claim more Negroes could have been placed on committees if there had been no discrimination in the elections.

Railroad Fires Mississippi Home Bomb

McCOMB, Miss.—The Illinois Central Railroad, which has carried hundreds of thousands of Negro migrants from the South, fired five white men who pleaded guilty to violence against Negroes in Mississippi.

The I.C. has been an ironic target of charges, that it en- contest to charges stemming gages in racial bias, but it; from church bombings and is expected that the firing of burnings. They are Paul D. the whites will help erase Wilson, 25; Billy E . Wilson, reputation.

22, H i l t o n Dunaway, 36; The men pleaded guilty to John Paul Westbrook, 20; various counts in connection and Gerald Lawrence, 21. with racial violence in McAll were shop workers at Comb last summer. T h e y were among 10 men arrested the Illinois Central yard in in a federal-state crackdown McComb. The company gave on racial bombings in the them notices of dismissal after a board hearing found Pike County area.

All pleaded guilty or no! them guilty of conduct unbe-

coming a railroad employe.

The accused, represented by attorneys, were present at the hearing. They contended that they pleaded guilty in court in order to not jeopardize their jobs.

The dismissal letters said in part that the men were being fired because of "adverse publicity and criticism brought to the railroad by conduct unbecoming an employe."

In the court hearing, the bombers got off light. They were fined S500 and told not to bomb any more N e g r o churches.

JANUARY

MUHAMMAD

15, 1965

Editorial

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Muhammad's Mission to The Nation of Islam

The most crucial question today in the Western Hemisphere is: "Who will lead the so-called American Negro?"

—and the only resounding and forth-right answer has come from the true leader of Islam among black people in America: from the Messenger of Allah, the Honorable By the Secretarial Staff to Elijah Muhammad.

Messenger Muhammad Few leaders are courageous enough to recognize the NO. 1 — Messenger Muhammad is acquainting the sofact that the American Negro has become a mighty nation of 20,000,000 . . . a nation within a nation . . . a nation called Negro with the knowledge that they are a people whose forebears were brought here in chains as slaves who have been lost from the main body of their people and whose descendants today remain in the humilating (of Africa and Asia); that they have been lost from their status of "freed slaves." own kind, language, philosophy, science, God and religion, The crisis comes today, however, because here a and that they are being taught and lead by strangers nation of people has reached a crossroads in their fight for freedoms—a crossroad from which there is no turning whose nature, God, religion, philosophy and civilization back. in general are foreign to the black man. The so-called Who Will lead the Negro?

Negro has been enslaved for 400 years under foreign History teaches that the greatest of Saviors have been teachers and languages, and these strange teachers' s p a w n e d in the midst of their own suffering people. History purposes and aims are helping him destroy himself and shows, whether in the case of the Hebrews or the Arab his civilization. Therefore, M e s s e n g e r Muhammad's nations, one divinely-guided and inspired to fight fearlessly MISSION is restoring the so-called Negro's knowledge for a true and lasting solution, has come forth at the j crucial time. of the things he should know in order to qualify for selfOur own Divine Messenger . . . one who has suffered independence.

I through our own deprivations . . . who has been subjected NO. 2 — Messenger Mu- Hemisphere, where he origito jailing and to the cruelest slander and misrepresentation.—But one who has fearlessly answered the all time hammad's greatest desire I nally lost all knowledge of question: Who will save the Negro? (for many years) is to build [ self. Under Messenger MuThe one who can save the Negro is one who has a an educational c e n t e r in hammad's leadership, the PROGRAM to restore our people to a rightful land of i so-called American Negro is their own; to a rightful name of their own; to their just- America to re-educate the rising into a greater light of deserved dignity and status and rightful place in civilized American black man by giving him the knowledge that understanding of self and society.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the only leader will lift him to the heights God than any civilization on who rejects identifying his people as digits—as a feeble of the wisdom of God and the face of the earth. This minority forever in the savage bosom of a ruthless majority man so the American so- i gives the Negro the key to . . . a divine leader who does not accept his people as I infinite wisdom and learnremaining forever second-class slaves of a soon-to-be called Negro can free him- i ing. Messenger Muhammad self of ignorance. He now is second-class empire. only a stage actor with a mi- j urges you to join him in doThe Honorable Elijah Muhammad has truly said: " I have been missioned to teach my people in America nor r o l e in civilizations of ing something for self. Mesthe religion of Islam and the knowledge of themselves the world. He must be pre- senger Muhammad's success and of others . . . pared to become the guiding is the success of us all. " I preach freedom and equal justice for the so-called NO. 3 — Messenger MuAmerican Negro . . . a thing he has never enjoyed. He has star of the nations of the hammad thinks that Chicanever had a chance to sit down even at home and feel that earth, with the help of Allah. go, situated near the center he is protected by the laws of America. He has never felt Messenger Muham- of the country and one of the like that because he has never been given equal justice mad wants the Negro to take : most beloved cities with a under our laws." an interest in helping him I large population of b l a c k The Negro cannot continue to be "saved" by that which b u i l d this monument ofj people in America, is the cannot save or lead itself. The Negro cannot follow the learning in the W e s t e r n most appropriate place for old echoes of a dying promise which tried and failed—and failed again. The Negro cannot be led by the very Christianity which has been the key to his slavery, the sleeping pill which has prevented his awakening.

The Negroes' 400-year-old prayers and search for justice must be led by one divinely inspired to answer his needs with courage and truth.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has said, "You and I have arrived at a day of decision. We have come to the crossroads, the point where we must make a decision on what we shall do or what we shall look forward to doing tomorrow."

He has said: "We believe in justice for all, whether in God or not." The Messenger states, "We believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality as a nations of equals."

Herein lies the salvation of the Negro. Herein lies the leadership, and in the final analysis, the true solution.

this monument of the socalled Negro.

It is Messenger Muhammad's desire to build a historical statue acclaiming the Negro's rise from slavery to that of an equal m e m b e r of civilization, and with a good chance of becoming the top star of civilized man.

The white man is afraid to give his one-time slaves the freedom to live to themselves and establish their own way of life under the leadership of the Muslims— not Christians — who will guide their black brothers in the way of peace, happiness and prosperity. Messenger Muhammad and his followers already are shining examples. No amount of discord a m o n g Muhammad's followers will ever cause outright fighting between brother and brother.

It is impossible under the teachings of Messenger Muhammad because he, first, plants the love of each other so strongly in his followers.

Even when hypocrisy arises, it never gains a majority of believers. This was proved recently when Malcolm, and a few others who turned hypocrite, tried to sow dissatisfaction among us. It is impossible for them to gain enough force to destroy the unity of the followers of Muhammad.

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the Messenger "Justice — I preach Freedom, Justice and Equality.

Justice for the so-called American Negro is a thing he has never enjoyed. He has never had a chance to sit down, even at home, and feel that he is protected by the laws of America . . ." " I AM H E R E WITH the Truth. Take the words, turn them over and over, examine them, put them on the scale of facts and weigh them, and if I am not teaching you the Truth, I say prove it and I will lay my head down and let you chop it off . . . " "YOU AND I HAVE arrived to a day of decision. We have come to the crossroads, the point where we must make a decision on what we shall do or what we shall look forward to doing tomorrow. We must make a decision.

We must come to an agreement; that is, if we think anything of ourselves, our people and the future of our wives and children . . . " US N I G G E R

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that minority groups who re- prejudice are allowed to proact against oppression could liferate, it can and often does not justly be classified as cause prostitution of the law. "prejudiced" since they act "We have witnessed these mainly in self - d e f e n s e consequences in t h e reagainst real, not imagined, cent attacks barriers. against Negroes in t h e "However, many whites South and in try to belittle the evils of ras o m e meacial prejudice," said Dr. Wilsure here in In a symposium at Chi- liams, "by claiming everythe N o r t h . one has prejudices and prefcago's Provident Hospital, It is obvious Dr. Kermit T. erences such as for coffee or that white Mehlinger, of tea, etc., but they fail to recsupremacy is ognize that t h e s e prefthe Psychiatprobably ric Institute erences have no effect on man's m o s t any but the person making of the Municidangerous pal Court, Dr. the decision." myth.

Williams E v a n GregD r. Williams explained ' T h e s e megelomaniac ory Moore of that prejudice was a crime the Institute against minorities because ideas are rooted in deformed o f Juvenile they are affected mentally, minds, usually paranoid hoResearch and morally, socially and eco- mosexuals. If serious damage to the community is to D r. Jeanne nomically. be avoided, it is felt the unSpurlock o f Mehlinger M i c h a e l ! "Thus segregation is not derlying psychiatric disturbReese Hospital described the in the best interest of the ance requires psychiatric disease of racial prejudice community," Dr. Williams treatment either at home or as "Perceptual Distortitis" said. "When blind hate and In a hospital." and concluded that prejudice, particularly when it produces grave damage to others as by Hitler's treatment of the Jews or the treatment of Negroes in the United States, can be a dangerous and deadly malady.

Three prominent N e g r o psychiatrists here have declared that racial prejudices inflicted against a defenseless minority should be recognized by law as a sickness and its perpetrators forced to undergo medical treatment or face c r i m i n a l action.

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By Sister Christine X Director - Principal University of Islam The University of Islam was established many years ago, through the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and under the guidance of Allah, to maintain and provide education in the knowledge of self and the doctrine of Islam. , There are at present two an atmosphere of peace and schools serving Muslim chil- friendship.

They found teachers w h o dren, here and in Detroit, Mich. Also, many Mosques were interested in helping throughout the Nation h a v e them shape their dreams of one day classes on Saturday. today into the facts of the These schools serve the pur- future; teachers who were pose of educating children of inspired by the work of the Honorable Elijah MuhamMuslims in the knowledge of mad and dedicated to assistself, through the history of ing him in carrying out his black men, from a n c i e n t program of h i g h e r educatimes to the present. Other tion; teachers whose greatsubjects taught, include the est wish has been to expand entire academic curriculum his program to include nonlisted in schools throughout Muslims as well as those of the U.S.A. the faith.

During these times of pupil We are asking the public u n r e s t and delinquency to help this man, who, more throughout the Nation, the than any other black man in University of I s l a m has America, has a program of proved a stabilizing influ- self-help; a p r o g r a m deence. signed with all of our people Many p e r s o n s in the in mind.

United States and around the We need a larger school to world have written and vis- house our children and give ited our school to see what it o t h e r boys and girls a is we teach that turns our chance to become useful, boys and girls Into self-re- self-reliant citizens of Amerspecting, intelligent, well- ica. A school designed to immannered, disciplined citi- prove and educate the rising zens. These same students, generation to the need to do who changed from p u b l i c for self, have a knowledge schools, wanted to study in of the great heritage that

has been our past and what^j savor the unbought grace of we must do in the future. | life.

We are appealing to the "The predicament of the public for funds and land to Negro in America, then, is help us build a school for all, that what he needs most is so that the so-called Negro something he cannot give in America can find confi-, himself; something, moredence and self-respect in i over, which neither governhimself through knowledge ments nor legislatures n o r and study of his own kind. courts but only the Negro And as Eric Hoffer, in the community as a whole can New York Times Magazine give him." of Nov. 29, 1964, said: "The This is what the Honorable Negro in America n e e d s Elijah Muhammad, through pride—in his people, their the University of Islam, is achievements, their leaders —before he can attain self attempting to do. respect. At present, individ"The well-off educated Neual achievement cannot cure gro may use his fellow Nethe Negro's soul. No matter how manifest his superiority FREELANCE as an individual, he cannot Bookkeeping and Accounting Service T a x e s , Contracts a n d Incorporations of Businesses.

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If any people need help to rise up and go for selj been deprived of such help.

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These are the grim figures which prove beyond a doubt that there is a double standard of life and death for Negroes and whites in the United States of America.

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by His Brother In a courageous effort to prevent the misunderstanding and misguidance of innocent observers caused the heedless disruptive actions of former Muslim Minister Malcolm, Brother Philbert X, minister of Muhammad's Mosque of Islam in Lansing, Mich., revealed in Chicago to a fully attended press conference the inside motives behind the action of his brother.

Quietly and calmly, Minis- and guidance of the Messenter Philbert exploded the un- ger of Allah. founded allegations of the Because it brings signififormer New, York minister cant clarification to many and revealed the tremendous c o n f u s e d viewpoints exdebt owed by Minister Mal- pressed in the white press colm and his family as well around this subject, Muhamas of millions of black people mad Speaks here brings its in America to the teaching readers the text of Minister Philbert's statement: Because, I , Philbert X, a minister at Muhammad's Mosque of Islam in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, and Muskegon, Michigan, l o v e Islam, our teacher, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and all his followers, I think someone should say something or speak out against the acts of my blood brother, i Malcolm.

Minister Philbert

Since I am one of the ones Who brought my brother Malcolm to Islam, I am taking this task on myself.

Because I am and have been a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for more than 17 years, I have s e e n the beneficial effects Mr. Muhammad's message has had upon me, my family and all of our

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people who have accepted I know as Messenger MuIslam. hammad teaches that anyone "who deviates from IsIn my eagerness to have lam is a hypocrite. all of our people gain full and complete freedom, jusI am aware of the great tice and equality through the mental illness which beset acceptance of the Honorable unfortunately, m a n y in Elijah Muhammad's divine America and which b e s e t message, I sought to introduce and convert my way- my mother whom I 1 o v e ward brother, Malcolm, to and one of my other brothers the banner of Islam under and which may now have Mr. Muhammad's leadership taken another victim, my brother Malcolm. more than ten years ago.

I know the works of Mr. I have seen and bear witness as to how Malcolm was Muhammad in reforming the raised from a level of noth- so-called Negro so he can ing to a place of honor and take his place in society. respect through the world as This is absolutely d i v i n e a result of Mr. Muhammad's work and we can only get this divine guidance as long direction.

Now I see my brother as we follow Mr. Muhampursue a dangerous course mad. which parallels that of the At the time of President precedents set by Judas, Kennedy's assassination Mr. Brutus, Benedict Arnold and Muhammad k n e w some others who betrayed t h e white people hated President fiduciary relationship be- Kennedy enough to kill and tween them and t h e i r that some white people also leaders. loved him enough to kill for him.

Mr. Muhammad ordered I see my blood brother go against the prayer of Islam all of his followers not to in which every believer asks make any statements about to be guided on the right President Kennedy's assaspath and not on the path of sination to a v o i d unwarthose who go astray after ranted and unjustified attack on his followers. they have heard Islam.

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intimidations of Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Muhammad's family and the Muslim followers of Mr. Muhammad.

My b r o t h e r Malcolm, greatly angered o v e r his being temporarily silenced for ninety days, now resorts to falsely charging Mr. Muhammad's family and the officials of our headquarters with seeking his ouster.

All of the Muslims know he defected and now speaks falsely about personal affairs of the Muslims, Mr. Muhammad and any Muslim of influence. My brother Malcolm will do anything and say anything to gain mention and his picture in news coverage.

He has always prided himself on being a great user of people, especially women, and now seeks to prevail upon women who unfortunately were weak and went contrary to Islam.

I have learned that he wants to use these women who have been dismissed from our group in an effort to accuse and smear any Muslim of influence in our group of misconduct.

I take this opportunity to prevail upon you and beseech your media to apprise those who may be taken in by my brother Malcolm's desire to promote his own selfish ends to maintain his public image.

As for my brother Malcolm setting up a rival mosque of Islam, I can only quote to you from our holy book, the Holy Qur-an:

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Mrs. Amy A s hw o o d Garvey is the first wife of the late Marcus Garvey a n d co-founder of the Back to Africa Movement.

She is now a citizen of Liberia and resides in the Liberian capital of Monrovia where sh-e is engaged in writing the story of Africa.

She will be happy to hear from friends in the Americas and elsewhere with whom she has been out of touch for many years.

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" I have been deeply impressed by Messenger Elijah Muhammad's message of Freedom and Unity in the March 18 issue of Muhammad Speaks, and I wish to compliment him on it.

"The idea of creating Negro markets which can provide food, clothing and housing for them is a noble and humanitarian one.

"That is what the masses need in Africa today, and you who live in the greatest manufacturing country in the world have the opportunity to extend such facilities to your brothers in Africa. " I sincerely share Messenger Muhammad's desire to see Negroes united in the cause of liberating themselves from the shackles of economic and political sub-

servience.

"In fact, I would say that they should even go as far as forming their own political party. The word Negro might soon become obsolete.

"It is gratifying to see that another dynamic figure has arrived in the arena of world affairs. Please convey to your followers my warm salutations. " I am especially happy to note that your people are expressing tremendous interest and love for Africa which of course, you have a right to do.

"There is no feeling like the feeling of belonging to a country, a people and a nation. I keep praying for you."

Very sincerely yours, Amy Ashwood Garvey

Mr. M u h a m m a d Meharry President To Tenn. Schools Board NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dr. H. D. West, president of Meharry Medical College, has been appointed by Gov. Frank Clement as the first Negro to the Tennessee State Board of Education.

William Bowden, also of Nashville, was named to the State Pardon and Paroles Board last week. He is the first Negro to serve on that body.

World Opens Arms to Champ Muhammad Ah CAIRO, Egypt—Whether white America wants to accept the fact or not, Muhammad AH, formerly Cassius Clay, one of the thousands of followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah, has become the most important heavyweight champion ever produced in the Western World.

No attempt to "rob" the young champion of his title r e a d y been extended by he said, without a fight or to defame more than 14 nations on "WE WILL treat him like or slander him because of three continents and the tour if he comes to West his religion can dim the fact is expected to last for three Africa. And I hope he leaves that the 22 - year - old youth months. the ring and will henceforth has an impact upon t h e Most objective observers join us in the battles we world scene far beyond and j i t that it was the young fight in the name of Islam, above that of an athlete. man's acceptance of the Di"We will show MohamThe frustrated fury of the vine teachings of Mr. Mu- mad Ali Clay the criminal white press and some white hammad and of Islam which treatment to which A r a b commentators, when they now occasions him a niche refugees are being subjectdiscovered the young boxer of respect and world atten- ed," asserted Muhammad Tewfik Aweida, h e a d of to be a proud member of the tion.

Nation of Islam, is expected African Muslim lead- Egypt's I s l a m i c Council, to i n c r e a s e here as his er E l Hadj Ibrahim summed who also attended the interworld-wide acceptance ex up the welcome of Ali as view in Cairo's Shepherd's pands. having been based upon the Hotel.

The heavyweight champi strong admiration Africans Aweida sent Clay a cable on is now preparing to em have for the program of Mr. inviting him to Cairo on the bark upon a world-wide tour Muhammad, which is now morning after he won the to be accompanied by an i known throughout most w o r l d championship from athletic troupe, Charles P. f ^e world.

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a boost. They were delighted when Cassius said: When anyone attacks me for being a Muslin they attack Cairo, Egypt, and Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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NEW YORK — The stunning effects of Harlem's fantastic reception for t h e Honorable Elijah Muhammad lingered on here days after the Messenger of Allah had delivered an address w h i c h has rekindled new hopes for freedom throughout the black communities of America.

More than 15,000 jammed the 142nd Street Armory — outside as well as inside — despite the sweltering heat to roar and cheer in the greatest demonstration of black unity seen here in decades.

Even the most biased of the white press admitted that the Messenger of Allah literally "took New York," and the New York Journal American described his victory as "overwhelming."

Inside the jammed a n d packed Armory, the greatest Islamic leader to be born in the Western World delivered an inspirational and vigorous address which blazed a new path in the freedom struggle.

The Messenger's address r a n g e d from domestic to foreign affairs; from t h e origin of the black man on earth to his present plight; from the words of the Holy Qur-an to the tale of Lazarus.

In his opening statement, Mr. Muhammad said: " I want to help you, my p e o p l e , gain salvation. I want to help you do this in a peaceful way and not in an aggressive way. We cannot be an aggressive people with nothing. It is real ignor-

F R O M A B O X I N G champion to a Divine Champion goes the golden mosque from W o r l d Heavyweight champion Muhammad A l i to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad at the p a c k e d Harlem rally held in New York for the great Islamic leader.

ant for any leader to say to you that you should be aggressive."

In forthcoming issues, Muhammad Speaks will present succeeding excerpts from the philosophical speech delivered by this divine leader.

The following quotations, however, were culled from the highlights of what most

political and religious ob- brothers servers regard as a turning point in the struggle f o r "We want only to settle equality for the black man in the problem with the truth.

America: Truth settled the problem "The time has now come 4,000 years ago, 6,000 years that all Muslims all over the ago and the Prophet Muhamearth wherever they may be mad, may the Peace and must be united under one Blessings of Allah be upon brotherhood a n d consider him, carried truth (Islam) ourselves as a nation of to Europe, 1400 years ago m

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and it is still there . . . " "The white man of America has said to you and me that we are free; then let us have some kind of pushoff and go free. If you are free — and the white man says you are free — prove you are a free man by not trying to make him treat you right. Prove you are a free man by saying, just let me go . . ."

"This problem is to be solved divinely, and the divine solution is separation.

I have been before you for 33 years teaching what Almighty God (Allah) has revealed to me . . . " "We want justice. We want to be free people. We want to extract justice from our fellowman or any human being. We want to extract it in the courts. When we go to the judge, we w a n t to remind the judge that his law books have justice in them.

Give it to me. Don't deprive me of justice as I am a human being.

• "You can give them a few of these states to live in to themselves, where the two of you will not be clashing with each other.

"If this is not done, white America, you can expect trouble and m o r e trouble.

God Almighty has said to me that he will take this poor lost and found man that you call Negro; He will take this earth away f r o m you and give it to the so-called Negro."

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N i g e r i a n Scholar

15, 1965

Warns:

African Revolution Still Waits

By Obiajunwa Wali (Evanston. III.)

Perhaps it is a little too late in the day to talk of an African revolution. To many people, the revolution for national independence in Africa has reached its climax, and the only possible revolution now, may be in the economic sphere.

But this is a misunderNEARLY T H E whole of carriage of our revolution. standing of the actual situa- Africa is now free from forIn many ways, they have tion, for underneath the eign rule, and now technical- failed to offer that impartial present calm and quiet, and ly independent, b u t the a n d objective criticism, under what appears in many achievement of the ideal so- which constitutes the health cases a steady economic ciety of our d r e a m and of new nations, in the midst development with the guid- struggle, falls very m u c h of hazards from older naance of indigenous leaders, short of the original expec- tions and competing ideolobitter controversies are still tations. gies who are bent on exploitgoing on which may well exWhat makes the situation ing inexperience, and possiplode beyond the control of potentially dangerous is that bly perpetuate their dominaDewey's concept of organwhile there is a g r o w i n g tion by more subtle and inized intelligence. awareness of this fact, most direct means.

T H E CRUCIAL question is of the new rulers in Africa Socialism as a political not the success of the politi- are busy devising one meth- and economic concept for incal revolution w h i c h we od or another to perpetuate stance, must of necessity h a v e all witnessed in Af- themselves in power, and have local or national variarica for the past two or more thus frustrate forever the tion:. But the stress cf seme decades, but the quality of aim3 and hopes of our revo- African intellectuals today the result of this f e r v e n t lution. is not just on this self-evicrusade.

It is in this connection that dent truth, but on some form There is little doubt that the role of the new African of a mythical African socialthe present finished product intellectual calls for a re- ism which is different and independent of the basic theis in many ways, not quite appraisal. ories of classical socialism. the same as the expected There is little doubt that a end-result, and only a few number of African intellecTheir aim is to confuse would now argue that there tuals played some leading further the basic aims of our was nD miscarriage some- roles in the nationalist move- revolution, and divert and where in the process of this ments of the past few dec- isolate the dynamics of Afrevolution. ades, and that s i n c e inde- rican socialism f r o m the The whole drive for Afri- pendence, many more have main stream of socialistic can nationalism started with been in the vanguard of na- thinking and solidarity.

THE OPPORTUNITY for an ideology of social justice, tional reconstruction either individual freedom, an equi- by way of direct political the African intellectuals totable distribution of wealth, leadership, or in the upper day i~. to abandon comproand a restoration within lim- echelon of the civil service mise on fundamental issues its of practical achievement organizations, or in the staff- for the full realization of our cf indigenous African cul- ing of the new universities revolution, and the salvagture. and similar institutions of ing of our cultural identity a f t e r centuries of oppresThe idea of a privileged higher learning. ruling class based on a cap- IT IS unfortunate at the sion and degradation. It is italist economy was particu- same t i m e , that most of only in this way that the Aflarly abjured, for on it rested these intellectuals have ac- rican continent can be saved all the evils, humiliations, quiesced beyond ordinary from the turmoils of violent and cruelties of foreign dom- level in what has already changes, which are becoming increasingly obvious. ination and colonialism. been described as the mis-

N I G E R I A N S C H O L A R Obiajunwa W a l i , who is working toward his doctorate a t Northwestern university, Evanston, III., as he wrote his definitive African report exclusively for Muhammad Speaks.

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As a Muslim, I am naturally interested in Islamic developments in this country.

As an Asian, I also find myself curious about and concerned w i t h the problems, hopes and aspirations of the so-called Negroes of America (who are, in the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, descendants of the Asiatic black man).

Thus it is that I write of the recent events in Harlem, in New York City, and the "Harlem of Brooklyn"— the borough's Bedford-Stuyvesant section (of which, incidentally, I am a resident).

The first and foremost impression that I wish to convey here is that had the vast majority of Harlemites and "black Brooklynites" been Muslims — or followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad — there would have been, in my considered judgment, no rioting or cause for tension, violence and lawlessness in New York City.

Here is why: First, the Muslims or followers of the Honorable E l i jah Muhammad do not believe in lawlessness and do not condone or indulge in any type of violent action—

Islam Scholar Abdul B. Naeem

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except when, in the face of repeated threats or incessant provocation, they must defend their lives, honor and property. T h e y would not therefore have engaged in or encouraged others to create or foment civic disorders.

Second, had Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn been predominantly Muslim, there would have been no looting. It is not a secret, but common knowledge, that the Muslims or followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad are, by and large, a fairly prosperous and self-sufficient community. They are also a people of high moral values.

They simply would not take what they do not require or cannot afford to buy or what isn't rightfully theirs. As they have no use for liquor and habit-forming drugs, the area's liquor shops and drugstores (reportedly the chief targets of mob looting) particularly would have been safe!

(Then, come to think of it —if most Harlemites and "black Brooklynites" were Muslims, chances are that most liquor stores would not exist amidst them, for lack of patronage!)

My third observation and opinion of the situation is that Harlem and BedfordStuyvesant (as well as other communities beset with identical problems) today, more than ever before, need the wise counsel and guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

mad alone, however, truly comprehends and knows the exact nature and extent of their dilemma. And likewise, he alone—with the help of Allah (God)—can cure the American black man's ills, and has the Divine sanction to do it!

In conclusion, I wish to offer another observation on the subject under review: I believe the hour of opportunity has arrived for the NATION O F I S L A M to expand its role in black America.

Now indeed is the time for the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to launch an all-out campaign to take and. spread the word of Allah's Supreme Wisdom unto all His people in this Wilderness . . . and beyond!

And now is the time for all of us—Muslims everywhere in this hemisphere—to seek out and reassure the poor and the wretched of this land that the end of their misery and sorrow is near and at hand!

I sense this and feel this way because, despite the new o f f i c i a l measures and legislation introduced recently to aid the so-called Negroes' progress, I continue to hear the suffering people of Allah crying out for help, for freedom, for justice and for equality.

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I continue to hear them saying: "This Civil Rights Law isn"t making any difference" . . . "This integration stuff isn't going to work out". . . "The whites just won't let us have better jobs and better schools and homes" . . . "Our leaders lack unity and as long as they are divided, we can't help ourselves much" . . . "We are going to stay second or third class citizens and forever eat only the crumbs from the white slavemasters' table."

And isn't this exactly what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been saying all along—for over 30 years? Indeed, so!

C O R E , N.A.A.C.P., HARYOU-ACT and the various "black nationalist" organizations operating in Harlem and "black Brooklyn" may claim to know the economic and social problems of the so-called Negroes, but the Honorable Elijah Muham-

If the Muslims will do as directed by their great leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I have no doubt that in due time Allah will turn H a r l e m , Bedford Stuyvesant and all the black "ghettos" of t h i s continent into veritable Gardens of Paradise and "Abodes of Heavenly Peace" (Islam).

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B R U S S E L S — T h e mutilated and mangled body of deposed Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was dropped into a vat of concentrated acid so that he would "disappear forever."

The "acid bath" was or- tary escort which brought ordered seizure of the paper dered by Puppet Premier them to Elizabethville, cap- carrying the article and poCyrille Adoula to thwart an ital of Katanga, in late Jan- lice combed news stands, investigation of the slaying uary, 1961. Their b o d i e s bookstores and libraries to by the United Nations after were in "a l a m e n t a b l e find copies. anti - Lumumba forces had state," he said.

LUMUMBA'S murder in P u b l i c a t i o n of these charges, which created a January 1961 followed entry sensation in Brussels, ap- of the United Nations into peared in a newspaper here the Congo. As head of the called "Pourquois Pas." In newly independent C o n g o the a r t i c l e , Tshombe government. Lumumba was charged that Lumumba's said to have made a fatal murder was arranged by political error.

At a crucial state of the Congo President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Cyrille revolution, when all his efforts s h o u l d have been Adoula.

The Belgian government placed on consolidating the position of the revolutionary leadership, Lumumba l e f t the country and went to New York to appeal to the United Nations for help in the chaotic situation left by the massive departure of Belgian technicians and administrators.

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dian. All of them were dying but their fate remained unknown for some time. Finally it was established they had been killed under mysterious circumstances.

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CAIRO—The life-and-death struggle of black Angolans for independence from centuries of Portuguese oppression may receive new impetus from China and other Asiatic nations.

Florintino Duarte. an official of the Angolan Revolutionary Committee here, is preparing to take a delegation of black Angolan freedom fighters to Peking for talks which he hopes will lead to financial and even military support from China.

He also will visit Cambodia.

North Korea and Vietnam in addition to China.

Although the Addis Ababa conference established a liberation committee to aid the Angolan struggle, little has been done. Angolan leaders have expressed open dissatis-

have betrayed guilty knowledge of the murders.

And the Belgian government betrayed its g u i l t y knowledge by seizing all the copies of "Pourquoi Pas" that contained Tshombe's sensational revelations.

Who is to investigate the Belgian Government's role of murder in high places?

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faction with the failure of some African countries to give any substantial support to the committee.

Racist Vote Plan for British Swaziland MBABANE, Swaziland — Elections will be held n e x t June 16 and 23 in this British protectorate for the first legislative council to bo elected in the territory.

European residents w i l l vote on both dates, but the Africans will be voting only on June 23.

The country—a total population of 42,000 — 6,000 of which are Europeans, will be divided into four sections, with e a c h section sending one European and two representatives of other races to the legislature.

MUHAMMAD

J A N U A R Y 15, 1965

"Say: Obey Allah and the Messenger; But if they turn back, Allah Surely love not the disbelievers."

Holy Qur-an 3:31.

The religion of Islam demands strict obedience to Allah and His Messenger.

The word "Islam" means submission, "obedience." O b e d i e n c e to God (Allah) is not accepted if disobedient to the Messenger.

"The Messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers."

Holy Qur-an 2:285.

A true follower of the Messenger believes as the Messenger believes, but a hypocrite pretends he believes but is not at all a believer. There are those who claim they are believers, but are sympathizers of the hypocrites; those are the ones who will never say anything one way or the other, fearing that they will show their sympathy for the hypocrite. Such ones are warned in the Holy Qur-an: "Behold, you are they who may contend on their behalf in this world's life, but who will contend with Allah on their behalf on the EtW

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There are those who like to dispute and act hostile towards the Messenger of Allah. They are also warned in the same chapter: "And whoever acts hostilely to the Messenger after guidance has become manifest to him and follows other than the Way of the believers, we turn him to that to which he himself turns and make him enter hell: And it is an evil resort."

Holy Qur-an 4:115.

This refers to those whom the Messenger hr* giji'l'"* tc Allah or. the right path, and has tasted the blessings of Allah and then turns back to that which they had been brought out of. And here Allah causes them to meet with a worse condition than they left. This is tasted by such ones in this life. Allah does not spare a Messenger's near of kin nor their wives and children. See Holy Qur-an 66:1-11.

Allah will chastise Messengers if they disobey Him, but Allah does not allow us to be the judge of His Messengers, nor does He make a second choice in choosing a Messenger for another.

Honorable Elijah Muhammad Read the histories of the Prophets of God. "O you who believe, obey Allah and obey His Messenger and make not your deeds vain.

Surely those who disbelieve antf hinder men from AJlah's way, then die disbelievers, Allah will not forgive them." Holy Qur-an 47:33, 34 God is very hard on us who disobey t:

His Messenger. He warns in His Holy Qur-an not to quarrel and dispute nor raise our voice above the Messenger's voice. Strict respect and honor is demanded for His Messengers. We should not take them lightly, we may underestimate them without knowledge.

Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah

asion of Unarmed Meetin H i t s

FLINT, Mich.—The shameful and unprovoked breakup—by gun-toting white policemen—of a Muslim meeting here where the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, was scheduled to speak, has been answered by a §1,000,000 damage suit filed in Federal court against the police officers and the IMA Auditorium.

The surprise and fearful reactions of c i t y officials here indicated that the suit, filed by Stuart J . Dunnings Jr., a Lansing, Mich., attorney, was on firm ground.

The suit, which demands a jury trial, names Capt.

Glenn B. Sommers, head of the c i t y detective bureau; Detective Lieut. Victor H. Smith and Jack Conley, also a detective.

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tual Association ( I M A ) , owners of the auditorium where the rally was held.

What happened Oct. 27, 1963, when policemen tried to enter the meeting, although it was well known privileges and immunities that all Muslims in the audiguaranteed t h e m by t h e | torium were entirely unFirst, Fifth and Fourteenth | armed, was best described Amendments to the United by the Messenger himself in States Constitution because the columns of the Nov. 22, the officers named in the 11963, issue of Muhammad suit violated the religious Speaks: group's policy of permitting "And now to their latest only unarmed persons to at- o u t r a g e in Flint, Mich. jtend its meetings.

There, on October 27, t h e A similar suit, filed ear- police department harassed lier in Genesee County Cir- us for three hours in order cuit C o u r t , seeks $27,097 to enter our meeting, fully against t h e Industrial Mu- armed inside an auditorium ]

F l i n t f i l l e d with peaceful, unarmed people.

"This p r o v e s beyond a shadow of doubt that there is no justice, nor peace for our black people in America, whether they be Christians or Muslims.

"We had rented this public auditorium in Flint to teach the so-called.Negro of the presence of Allah, of the judgment of the devils and the separation of the two peoples (black and white).

"Approximately 6,000 people, including 200 to 300 devils, had submitted to being searched for arms and other possessions that might be against the peaceful assembly. A black policeman had

e n t e r e d , but had surrendered his arms.

"Later on, however, t w o w h i t e officials appeared, claiming that their law compels them to go into all public meetings armed and that their weapons were not to be given up.

"They insisted on coming in with their arms, and upon the right to those who would oppose their entering. " I w e n t to the door to speak with the haters of socalled Negroes. I told them that if they wanted to come in, do as their white brothers had done: that is, give up their weapons,

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Penniless Prisoner

11-1' Million Dollar Song

By Jeremiah Shabazz and James X London "Walking In The Rain," one of the songs that brought fame and fortune to white singer Johnny Ray, was written by a Negro prisoner who had served long years on the chain gang for killing a white man he caught in the act of raping his mother.

Johnny Ray grew wealthy on royalties from "Walking Moore plantation just out- two-bladed wood cutting ax.

In The Rain," which sold side the small town of Gate When the boy swung the ax some two million records. at the man's b a c k , he City, Tenn.

The prisoner, Robert RiAs he neared his home, jumped up. turned and the ley, didn't get a dime for his screams of terror k n i f e d ax struck the white man in song. through the quiet day. Thethe head, splitting his skull.

His terrified mother ran to W h e n he was released lad s t o p p e d in stride, from prison he got $10.50 dropped his fishing pole and the home of a neighbor and "but a n y b o d y who does broke into a run for the called the sheriff. Two of the more than a year gets that shack It was his mother's white men with the sheriff started to beat the lad, but amount," s a i d Riley, who voice, was', just a boy when his The boy rushed into his had to stop when a lynchworld crumbled about him. mother's bedroom and found minded mob formed and beIt began when he was 13 a white man trying to choke gan to close in. The sheriff just wants "a chance to related, "if you didn't aryears old—walking along a off her cries for help while and the four or five men who make it." range to have your mother, He remembered that there wife—or whoever it was that dusty road toward the shot- raping her. Reeling from the accompanied him had to gun shack he and his moth- shock, the boy ran into the force the mob back at gun were holes for the prisoners caught his fancy—give in to er called home on the W. H. hall where the family kept a point and hustle the Negro charged with insubordinateenager, iiUo^Vf4t_Vir5ima ticr. in fact, there are three him.

The boy was shuttled about types of holes.

This was such a frightenfrom place to place, preing threat that "most (of the "One you stand up in, one sumably to protect him from prisoners) went along with you can sit down in and one a lynch mob. It was 17 the guards," he added. months later when he went that's real dark. You can't "Some of the guys would see nothing in there," he on trial. said. "The stand-up hole al- refuse, and they might get D e s p i t e his youth; his lows you only to stand up. I killed," Riley said. shattering experience when once did eight days in the A guard would whisper to he f o u n d his screaming stand-up hole." a recalcitrant prisoner, tellmother, and the pleas of While in one of the prisons ing him to cross the road. two court - appointed law- where Riley was incarcer- The guard would then shoot yers, the boy was sentenced ated during his almost 23 him down, reporting that the to death. This verdict was years, he described a situa- prisoner had been "trying to later commuted to 520 years tion brutally reminiscent of escape." in prison.

Riley said he never tried slavery days lusted for one Such is the background of of the black slave women. to escape, but added that Robert Riley, who s p e n t On the occasion when a many prisoners were killed. more than half of his "22 guard saw and fancied the "Nobody ever died a natSANITARY years, 11 months and 10 female visitor of a prisoner, ural de'ath on the records," BARBER SHOIdays" in jail before his freehe forced the prisoner to get he recalled. "He was shot dom on the "chain gang."

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Sheriffs Meet, Hear G-Men

JACKSON, Miss. — Two days before a United States Commissioner freed Sheriff Rainey and his deputy, Cecil Price, along with others arrested by the F B I in connection with the slaying of the three civil rights workers last summer, the members of the Association of Mississippi Sheriffs rallied to give the arrested officers their moral support.

new bigwig of the State Sovereignty Commission, Earle J o h n s o n , said as how he thought M i s s i s s i p p i a n s should be commended for their restraint in the face of "an unwarranted invasion by outside civil rights groups."

Among the top g u e s t speakers at this session, with Sheriffs Rainey and Price in attendance (they were out on bail at the time), were two special agents from the Federal Bureau of Identification.

emerge out of the freedom struggle, was beaten by the racists in Mississippi until she was practically blue, almost blinded, and nearly paralyzed because of her f r e e d o m activities. Undaunted and unafraid she said: " I am not one of t h e m middle class Negroes who says 'honey, I don't w a n t anything to do with that mess.' If you are born in America with a black skin, you are born in a mess.

What we are trying to do is get out of the mess.

"We want now what is ours. That is why we are challenging the seating of the representatives from Mississippi. The problem in Mississippi is the problem in Harlem," Mrs. Hamer continued. "To make democracy work we must challenge

Roy K . Moore, s p e c i a l agent in charge of the Jackson office, gently spelled out "The Role of the F B I in Civil Rights Matters in Missis' sippi."

Special Agent Roy McDaniels regaled the gathering with an incisive presentation of the "Psychological Factors in Riot Control."

F B I Director J . E d g a r Hoover was rewarded when the group solemnly pledged him their collective and individual cooperation and assistance. And while some eyes still were misty, the

The meeting was called by the new head of the Mississippi Sheriffs' Association, Sheriff Charlie Capps, Jr., of Holmes County, whose clarion calls was: "Sheriff Rainey needs our help."

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things. The white man is not afraid of integration. He is afraid of power. Don't let nobody tell you the ballot doesn't matter. When we get the ballot, we are going to change things."

Mrs. Hamer also spoke of how they had tried to get in touch with President Johnson during the most brutal reprisals by the racists, only to be refused. Comparing her treatment by President Johnson with her trip to Africa, Mrs. Hamer said: "We were not in Africa 12 hours and the President of Guinea came to talk to us."

The d e l e g a t e s at the founding convention of FIPA voted to support the efforts of MFDP to unseat the representatives from Mississippi by writing to their Congressman, and through publicizing the issue wherever possible.

IN T H E H E A R T of Peking, C h i n a , Muslims pause for religious rites in one of the city's well-attended mosques. W i d e s p r e a d religious freedom of Muslims in mainland C h i n a is attested to by the f a c t that members of the Islamic faith occupy several huge autonomous regions, elect their own officials, run their own schools a n d control their own communities.

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gration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the socalled Negro, they can prove it by dividing

up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her ownmillions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well.

10. WE B E L I E V E that we who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which takes the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. WE B E L I E V E our women should be

respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. WE B E L I E V E that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited •Messiah" of the Christians and thej "Mahdi" of the Muslims.

I We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no^God and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.

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The Muslim Program What the Muslims

Want

This is the question asked most frequently by both the whites and the blacks. The answers to this question I shall state as simply as possible.

1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.

2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color.

3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society4. We want our people in A m e r i c a whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their o w n either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years — until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.

Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we be.jiovp_pur contributions to this tend and the Ig forced upomjus by white A m e r i c a , jus."#es our demand f<>r complete separation in a state or territory of our own.

5. We want freedom for a l l Believers of I s l a m now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for a l l black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South.

We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master's children and establish a land of their own.

We know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the United States.

We believe that the F e d e r a l government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land — or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

7. A s long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States, but equal employment opportunities—NOW! We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped A m e r i c a become rich and powerful, that so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief, charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from A L L taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education — but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We want a l l black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers.

Under such schooling system we believe we w i l l make a better nation of peonle. T h United States government shoaid piovidt free, a l l necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teanhprs shall be left free to teach and train their people in the w a y of righteousness, deff

The Honorable Elijah Muhammaa^^i^^^jiijiiijiii^iiJi^ cency and self respect.

10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of I s l a m taught without hinderance or suppression.

These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.

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1. W E B E L I E V E in the One God Whose proper Name is Allah.

2. W E B E L I E V E in the Holy Q u r a n and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God. 3. W E B E L I E V E in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. W E B E L I E V E in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. W E B E L I E V E in the resurrection of the dead—not in physical resurrection—but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the peo-

ple of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than the so-called Negroes in A m e r i c a . We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. W E B E L I E V E in the judgement; we' believe this first judgement will take place, as God revealed, in A m e r i c a . . . .

7. W E B E L I E V E this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans.

We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. B y this we mean that he should be freed from the names i m posed upon hirr by his former slave masters.

Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names — the black peoples of the earth.

8. W E B E L I E V E in justice for a l l , whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality—as a nation— of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters in the status of "freed s l a v e s . " We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

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