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See U.S. State Department Not as 'Prophet' But as Participant in Crimes Against Africa (UN Correspondent) I ber 5, issue of the New York dealt with by the West, subjecBy CHARLES P. HOWARD i Times on the obituary page, a t i v e l y , never objectively. The UNITED NATIONS—As I am story of the death of Sir Mwana- West does it's best to prop-up writing, this word comes over the wina Lewanika III. Sir Mwana- every Paramount Chief that it radio that President Modiba Kei- wina who died at age 78 report- can, knowing full well that the ta of Mali has just been over- edly had been on the Barotse institution of tribal chieftancy is thrown by a m i l i t a r y coup. throne for 20 years. His picture inconsistent w i t h Independent National Sovereignty. I have had Where they used to use the accompanied the article. chieftancies to prevent, thwart, AN ORDINARY obituary page the opportunity on numerous ocundermine those who would pro- in the New York Times will note casions to observe the difficulties encountered by Heads of Indethe death of several hundred pendent African States trying to persons, so when one person gets wrest independence for the masa two column six inches spread, ses from tribal chiefs. accompanied by a 3% inch one Actually, it is about as hard to column picture, one must conget independence from the tribal clude that the deceased was a very, very important person, or chieftancy as it is to get indethere are other reasons. The pendence from the European colobituary is date lined Lusaka, (Continued on page 39) Zambia. Now, there is more to the exU. N. Issues tra recognition given Sir MwanaHoward tect the just deserts of the Afri- wina than meets the eye. This is Suicide Report can masses, now they use the not intended as a criticism of Sir Mwanawina as an individual, but UNITED NATIONS—According elite African military that they I do know that traditionally, Af- to a new booklet by the World have trained. The result is the same. How rican Chief's as a class have Health Organization, at least 1,000 simple can some people be? Sec- been used by the colonial powers people a day commit suicide. retary of State Dean Rusk said to make almost impossible the The publication, "Prevention of about two years ago, even before creation of free, independent Af- Suicide" considers the act a pubNkrumah was overthrown, that rican States, or the ability of the lic health problem and recom"other left wing African leaders people who have struggled so mends preventative medical and hard to gain independence for social programs. will be overthrown." More than half a million suiThe guy just isn't that good a themselves and their people, to cides are reported each year, acprophet—he's got to be a partici- make independence work. pant. We read much in the Western cording to U.N. statistics, and * * * press about the evils of "tribal- there are at least eight times as There appeared in the Novem- ism." But the subject is always many suicide attempts.
TERRIFIED CHILD in Cambodia cries profusely after being wounded by U.S. gunship which "strayed" into Cambodian territory. Cambodian government officials noted an increasing number of accidental "casualties" caused by wandering U.S. troops.
Behind the Ouster of Mali's Keita: Latest Success of CIA Coups? (Pan African Press) BAMAKO, Mali—The apparent ouster of the militant Modibo Keita as head of Mali was regarded there as the latest in the well-financed white-West directed coups designed to destroy the few remaining truly independent Black leaders in Africa. AS REPORTED exclusively in M U H A M M A D SMAKS some three years ago, reliable informants had produced e v idence that neocolonizing Western intelligence agents had earm a r k e d some s e v e n African leaders for destruction "at all costs" because Keita of t h e i r programs aimed at liberating Africa from American and European domination. High on that list had been Ben Bella of Algeria, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Modibo Keita of Mali, Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. The ouster of Keita would mark their most successful pro-western coup since the demise of NkruMUHAMMAD SPEAKS Published Weekly Vol. 8—No. 11
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Nazi-white South Africa, heavily supported by American investments, has openly declared that the destruction of Nyerere is essential for the "peaceful" continuation of white rule in South Africa. Although Keita had been reKEITA'S removal is expected to leave W e s t e r n intelligence garded as having instituted an agents free to effective economic and educaconcentrate o n t h e i r new "most wanted" African leader: Tanzania's J ulius Nyerere. It is from Tanzania t h a t Black freedom fighters h a v e been operating effective thrusts Nasser to liberate neighboring Mozambique from its 600-year enslavement by Portugal. Nyerere, t o g e t h e r with President Kenneth Kaunda of adjacent Zambia, has established perhaps the strongest base for Black guerilla fighters in modern African history. mah. Despite the fact that the recent Mali conspiracy was allegedly led by a so-called group of "left-wing army officers," the leaders were obviously backed by European leaders.
tional program for the nearly 5 million Malians, the attack by the army element did not come entirely as a surprise. In recent months, Keita had reportedly allowed a number of previously banned U.S. investment companies to survey his minerally-rich nation. He had ignored repeated warnings that the introduction of
these elements simply opened the way for well-financed agents to operate among some of the more n a i v e and opportunistic lower officials. Mali, formerly a French colony, became a self-governing republic in 1958. Keita had been one of the leaders of the original struggle for independence.
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The most important thing among the Nation of Black and white is the doings of justice between the two. THE DIVINE LAW of justice is not hard to obey and execute if by nature we have any good in us, for it takes good to justify good and condemn other than good. Today, we live in the time that the Divine Supreme Being Desires above all things, Freedom, Justice, and Equality for the poor, Black Man in the mud. Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are Due Forever (God in Person) Is Making His Appearance among us here in North America. He Has Chosen the Black Man in America for His Own and Desires Justice for us. His Intention is to force justice so that He may make it triumph over injustice and destroy those who willfully and knowingly try to hinder the work of justice among us. God is Determined to see that the Black Man gets justice—Divine Justice. This is putting America and England in a very dangerous and difficult position among the Nations of the earth. The American so-called Negro (Lost and Found Members of the old ancient—ancient of the ancient— the Originator of the heaven and the earth) are members of God. They have been mistreated and deprived of justice and no one, as Isaiah of the Bible prophesies, has sought justice for us. Since we had no one to offer us justice and to help us get justice, this is the purpose of Master Fard Muhammad (God in Person) Coming: To take it upon Himself to give justice to us, a whole Nation in a nation lying at the mercy of a merciless people for 400 years; begging for justice under their law. And, to this day we have not enjoyed anything like justice. Now, the cry among Black people every-
By Sister Margary Hassain Bible . . . John 5:36, "But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me." TODAY, WE LOOK at the record of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and can, in this day and time, see the great spiritual and material work that His Mission has and is accomplishing among us, the Lost-Found Nation in the Wilderness of North America.
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where is: "Let me go. I want justice." And, a great separation is now in the working. By no means should America be seeking to keep them (Black people) in an integrated position against the will of the Black people. The Black people want their own schools, taught under Black teachers and out from mixed Black and white schools. America is not willing to give this, but a hundred years ago, 50 years ago, and 25 years ago, she wanted nothing better than a Negro segregated from white people. They would kill and lynch us if we tried to get in their schools and in their churches. Now, today they are beckoning to the poor little Black girl and boy to come in and stay with white children, where by no means will they ever have any more peace together today than they ever had. If America wants the Black Man to remain with them, do justice by us and do not give us a hypocriti-" cal justice. I say to all Black people: Be yourself and stop throwing yourselves and your children into the fire while you can stay out of it, by being yourself. For over thirty-five (35) years, we the Muslims, have been able to get along in peace in our schools —alone to ourselves. We have no trouble whatsoever as far as disunity and immoral practices among the children. They are good. We are not spotless but we are on the road to try to clear the spots of other nations that have spotted our garments. We must have separation to rebuild the falling Black members of that mighty Black Nation. Number one, we must love ourselves (Black). We must protect the interest of the Black Man and the Black Woman. We must, of all people of the earth, protect our Black woman from being an open prey or prostitute for the races and nations of the earth. Girls from fifteen years old up to 25 and 35 years old walk the streets all hours of the night, offering
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IN EVERY WALK OF L I F E , we can see this separation taking place . . . in governmental agencies, police and fire departments, the school system, or any place you care to mention. AS NOAH faithfully built the ark, against the day of the coming of the flood, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, is faithfully building a Nation and economy, homes and jobs, and guiding us in the cash purchasing of dairy, poultry, cattle and produce WE CAN EACH BEAR WITNESS, IN OUR OWN farms, storage and warehouses and various other TIME, during these 37 years of his ministering to us, enterprises and businesses in order to provide us, that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the true with lightning, speed, the necessities to grow into a Man of God. He is the Greater Witness. After Allah, successfully independent Nation. Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due WHITE AMERICA is seeking a leader to guide forever, missioned him, He left His Messenger with a them to rebuild their place of respect and stability tremendous work to accomplish among us. among nations. THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, teachBLACK AMERICA, is blessed with a Divinely Appointed and Guilded Leader, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who has already earned for those of us FREEDOM, who follow him, the respect of the worlds. Lose no more time, join onto your Own kind and follow The JUSTICE and Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who already has a head start in building a new Nation for self and kind EQUALITY WE MUST HAVE OR ELSE
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Witness . . a House designed by Wisdom. Leave the world of the wicked. HEED THE WORDS OF WISDOM . . . Bible Pr. 24:1-5 "Be not thou envious against evil man, neither desire to be with them." "For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief." "Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:" "And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches." "A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength." THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, the greatest witness of the Promise of Allah (God), teaches us, that Allah has come to establish a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and he warns us, as the Bible verifies, Ps. 127:1... "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it:. . ." THE SUCCESS OF THE WORK, of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah, bears witness that Allah (God) is with him in building our house (Black Nation).
THE DEVIL'S LAST ATTEMPT TO TEMPT THE RIGHTEOUS (BLACK) MAN AWAY FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVIL AND FILTH. THIS IS THE SAME OLD WAY THAT HE TEMPTED OUR FIRST FATHERS TO FALL FROM PARADISE INTO THE WILDERNESS OF THE EARTH (EUROPE AND AMERICA). READ THE WARNINGS OF JESUS. SEE BIBLE AND HOLY Q U R A N . WATCH AND PRAY, THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION. — MATT. 26:41 O, CHILDREN OF ADAM LET NOT THE DEVIL SEDUCE YOU AS HE EXPELLED YOUR PARENTS FROM THE GARDEN, PULLING OFF F R O M THEM THEIR CLOTHING THAT HE MIGHT SHOW THEIR SHAME. HE SURELY SEES YOU. HE AS WELL AS HIS HOST F R O M WHICH YOU SEE THEM NOT. SURELY HE MADE THE DEVILS TO BE THE FRIENDS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT. - HOLY QUR'AN 7:27
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GARY MAYOR Richard G. Hatcher told a recent city council session that "Charges of a breakdown in law and order (in Gary) are obviously false." His remarks were in response to attacks from council members who charged Hatcher was going "too soft" on the Black community and should initiate a police crack-down on all urban areas. Hatcher defended his position by praising the police department for "an effective job of law enforcement" and stressed his administration was seeking "constructive" solutions to the problems of crime in Gary. *
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A BLACK FEDERAL COURT JUDGE criticized the spending of tax funds by Chicago political leaders to fund fratricidal, Black street gangs. Judge James B. Parsons, in a speech before the Chicago area council of Boy Scouts, said the use of funds by the Office of Economic Opportunity and local, politically aligned organizations was "a great travesty on the use of tax funds." *
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AFTER THOUSANDS of people have been bombed, and countless women and children massacred in the most barbaric war in history, Pope Paul VI told North Vietnamese officials he would have liked to visit their country to share in their ordeal "if conditions had been more favorable." In a letter to Catholic officials in North Viet Nam, the pontiff said that he hoped his message, sent well after the smoke of U.S. bombing attacks has cleared, would "encourage you in your hard trials." "H circumstances had been more favorable," he wrote, ". . . we certainly would have come among you . . . in your hard trials and to make you feel how deeply we share in them." * * *
COOPERATION BETWEEN Algeria and the Soviet Union is becoming more evident, according to world observers. Plans to hold a Soviet film festival in the capital city of Algiers is expected to precede announcements that the two countries are discussing increased trade agreements. It is expected that the Mers-al-Kebir naval base may become the new home of the Soviet Mediterranean fleet and that the Soviet Union will declare military support of the North African territory. *
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AN AGREEMENT between Saudi Arabia and neighboring Iran on the two countries off-shore boundaries ended friction between the two countries over rights to the potentially oil-rich continental shelf on the Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia ratified the agreement which was proposed in a meeting with Iran officials.
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A 100-CAR CRASH along a one-mile stretch of freeway 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles left two persons killed, and scores of others injured this week. The disaster occurred when motorists attempted to grope through the heavy fog on the Riverside Freeway. The resulting confusion caused several fires as cars and trucks piled into each other rupturing several fuel tanks.
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VITAL LESSON for Black people, police and citizens alike, lies in killing of Pvt. Willie C . Ivery, 25, Washington Metropolitian Police. Ivery (r) dressed in "tattered old clothes" so he could work as undercover man and
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Police Applaud MACE, Guns HONOLULU - " C h e m i c a l veloped chemical MACE was a sprays have practically eliminat- "valuable weapon" in controlling ed the night stick; it's better public d i s o r d e r . His remarks than hitting a man over the were echoed by San Francisco head," stated Asheville, N.C. Po- Police Chief Thomas Cahill who affirmed that MACE could be lice Chief Joseph C. Hall as po- used "with a minimum of hazlice officials from across the na- ard." Apparently he was refertion applauded their approval of ring to its effect upon police officers b e c a u s e victims of the fatal chemical sprays. Addressing the 75th Interna- chemical spray have reportedly tional Assn. of Chiefs of Police, developed permanent eye damHall added that the recently de- age, severe bronchial stress, and
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ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, who was recently re-elected to return to the House of Representatives, said President-elect Richard M. Nixon's proposal for Black capitalism is "ridiculous and will not work." "Nixon, as Vice President," Powell told a New Haven College audience, "did nothing for Black people." He challenged Nixon's approach to Blacks as "tokenism" and a substitute for a real plan of action. *
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Disguised by John Woodford SWAN QUARTER, N.C. —Hyde County forms part of the eastern shore of North Carolina. It is that state's poorest county in per capita income even though it contains rich fishing and game preserves and supports part of the nation's multimillion dollar sea food industry. Greedy whites wrench what they can from this land and the poor people—white and Black— who live on it. The labor of the poor people barely s u s t a i n s them. In an era of unmatched luxury, waste and wartime profits, the average Black man in Hyde County receives $700 a year. The figure for Black and white combined is $1,143 a year. Poor as the whites may be, they still average $1,800 a year: that's over 2% times what the Black person earns. Both groups of poor people receive income supplements from the county welfare department. But since the welfare department is hardcore racist, there is no doubt as to who is being cheated and who is being fattened by the welfare board. It isn't hard to prove the charge of racism. A check of health, food supply and living conditions clearly shows—by sight alone— that the welfare board is merely an instrument of slow torture and murder in the hands of white racists. If more proof is needed, the welfare board itself provides it. But first the background: as most of the country learned in r e c e n t weeks, Hyde County Black people have conducted a better than 90 per cent effective b o y c o t t against the county schools. The boycott has run ever since September. THE U.S. NEWS media, fishing for "novelty" as it does, only skimmed the surface of the Hyde County situation by reporting, with amusement, that some sort of crazy or u n g r a t e f u l Blacks were rejecting the chance to go to a previously white school. What really happened is that racist school officials drew up an "integration" plan with the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare without consulting the county's Afro-American community which represents 60 per cent of the county residents. When rumors of the possible closing of the two Black schools —Davis and Peay—began to crop up, the white officials assured the Afro-Americans that nothing would be done without consulting Ihem. But in August, Black people received letters announcing that their children in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades would be sent to Mattamuskeet School, located in a predominantly white Klu Klux Klan-controlled area. This was to be the first step in a program to phase out the Black schools altogether. Whenever Blacks saw each other last August they assured each other that this was the last straw, that the white man had gone too far. They had called in no outside organizations to culti-
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Whites said Blacks were cruel to chickens; they expressed no concern for Black girl who broke her pelvis as result of police teargassing.
Until the minority European American community in Hyde County is prepared to cooperate with us in correcting the flaws of white racism . . . they are not morally or intellectually qualified to exercise any control over our children—from "Statement of Hyde County Blacks." crosses and bonfires, the Black parents bowed under the threats boycott grew to include 800 to of the welfare department. 850 Black students of a 900 or so ' Knowing that 41% of Black peoples' necessities were paid total. Whites got some Black families for out of welfare checks, the to send their children to school welfare board sent a letter which by threatening to take their jobs read in part: " I f your children away, but most t h r e a t e n e d or grandchildren are not back in Blacks simply replied like one school by the first day of Debrave woman, "You never let cember, your checks will be me have much of a job anyway; stopped or reduced, depending go ahead and take the one I on the ages of the children. . . . We only want to help you and got." Some of the Black students vi- your children." olating the boycott are foster After the welfare board began children who white o f f i c i a l s to make good on its threatscould remove from their homes even before the date it set—the VIOLENT TALK rose like a and send to cruel state institu- Black students decided to hold a storm off the county's coast. It tions. Others include those whose sit-in in the welfare offices. They was at this time that A. B. Fulford and other Afro-Americans decided that they should call in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to see if a nonviolent campaign- would win their demands. vate their plans. The idea of the school boycott grew naturally among them like some wild and beautiful African flower. Whites grew w o r r i e d . They knew that school funds match enrollment and that a Black boycott could cripple their nextyear's budget. They thought they could fast-talk the Afro-Americans into agreement with the trick word "integration." But during one of several hot meetings, a Black man rose to his feet and shouted: " I ' l l see my children dead before I let you take them to your school."
SCLC sent two l o c a l men, James Barrow of Washington, N.C., and Golden Frinks of Edenton, to help the Hyde County Blacks. The boycott grew firm and extended into the economic area. Blacks are waging a 94 per cent effective boycott of racist-run businesses, instructing the whites that they will trade with them if the whites use their influence to back the Blacks demands for a fair share of the power. At first whites tried the timeworn tactic of holding a big Klan meeting in Fairfield on Sept. 13, three days after schools opened without Black students. Despite the dragons, wizards and OUT OF ACTION: Mamie Harris, 18, reother freaks d a n c i n g around cuperates in Fairfield, N.C., home after
had built up their unity through months of daily demonstrations and marches. Now they were ready for a different kind of confrontation with the state troopers and police who dogged thensteps. THE POLICE GASSED them in the welfare offices, but they were ready for them. They had soaked towels in water. When the gas poured in they put thenheads under the towels and sat it out. Several were arrested. Arrests grew in following days of protests, as troopers hauled in youngsters for blocking the state (Continued on page 18)
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Whites Exclude Blacks, Puerto Ricans From NYC School Strike 'Settlement' By Joe Walker NEW YORK—It remains to be seen whether the t e a c h e r s ' strike, an on-again, off-again affair, has really been settled by the agreement worked out November 17. Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, chairman of the controversial Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board, indicated that he and others were far from accepting the latest "settlement."
to the agreement. "We are not going to get into the bag of having anything and everything imposed on us," he said. "It is obvious that the Black and Puerto Rican people of the city are not going to be allowed to determine the future of their children. It is equally obvious that this may be the beginning of the end of Ocean Hill-Brownsville." Two of the three suspended principals also reacted in a similar tone. Said Louis Puentes, MAIN POINTS in the agree- principal of PS 55 and the only Puerto Rican principal in the ment include the installation in city, " I think what is happening the Brooklyn school district of a stinks." state trustee with powers of a district superintendent; the re- William Harris, head of JHS moval at least temporarily of 271, the focal point of Ocean three principals from the dis- Hill, deplored "the lack of due trict; and the establishment by process" in the removal of the the state of a special committee, principals, a clear reference to with extraordinary powers over teachers' union charges that its all city schools and teachers. ousted members were refused These powers involve the right hearings on the reasons for their to suspend personnel, to investi- transfers. The community board gate violations of the rights of at that time claimed they had teachers and other school per- the right to oust the UFT teachsonnel and the authority to proc- ers without pressing charges or ess grievances concerning trans- holding hearings. The teachers in question were considered "undefers. What does it all mean? The sirable" and it was the transferTHIRTY DAY weather map, covering mid-November to mid- Rev. John J . Powis, a Roman ring act that sparked the UFT to December, shows mass of unusually cold temperatures in store Catholic priest who is on the use strike tactics. for almost all of this nation. U.S. Weather Bureau made forecast. local board, remarked that the The days and weeks ahead will agreement "looks like total ca- show how lasting a peace has pitulation to the demands of the been obtained, if community conunion." trol of schools is a dead pigeon Local board chairman, Rev. and what have been the many Oliver noted that nobody from side-effects of the school strugthe community had been a party gle. In the meantime, the words THE FATHER OF A Baltimore soldier who was sentenced to demotion and six months hard labor, came to his defense following court martial proceedings in a plea stating "my son has given everything he can for his country . . . What now will our country do for my son?" Pvt. Thomas Bodensick was convicted for being absent without leave for being nine days overdue at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The youth, who was struck in the head and legs by metal fragments while in Viet Nam told his father "Dad, I just couldn't take any more."
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A 12-MEMBER federal court jury has heard a damage suit against the Ku Klux Klan in Vicksburg, Mississippi, awarding over one million dollars to relatives of a slain Black Cattle tender. The jury, which included eight Blacks, ruled that the K.K.K. and three individuals must pay $22,150 in actual damages and one million dollars in punitive damages in the death of Ben Chester White. The suit was filed by White's son and other relatives unnamed.
of Milton A. Galamison in an article he wrote for a recent issue of Christianity and Crisis deserves pondering. (Galamison is the Black pastor of the Siloam Presbyterian Church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, a recent appointee to the city's central Board of Education and a long-time fighter for quality education.) He wrote that the Ocean Hill-Brownsville dispute has nationwide proportions and "it is, in fact, the struggle to abort colonialism in urban education. There is no urban community across the face of the United States whose destiny will not be affected by the outcome of this contest. It will determine whether or not the Black community, suffering under the tyranny of absentee domination of its school system, will have a voice in its children's education.
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The Black man's . heritage of poverty and p r e j u d i c e makes him a prospective candidate for the Department of Correction's blue denim uniform. "His high visibility and unfamiliar appearance," work as a h a n d i c a p ASIDE FROM the D.C. jail, against him, Adams contends. located within the city limits, three of the Department's institu- W I T H O U T MONEY and tions—the Workhouse, the Refor- friends, the Black man, once armatory for Men and the Youth rested, finds the going "harder Center—are located on a 3,500 within the penal machinery." acre reservation near Lorton, Not being able to speak the Virginia, approximately 20 miles middle class language, the Black south of Washington. man is looked upon, in many If you happen to be a Black cases, by judge and jury as "unman, over 30 years of age, born reliable," Adams continued. in the district, dropped out of A recent brief, filed by the school around the age of 16, American Civil Liberties Union s e m i - s k i l l e d and unmarried, in the District Court, charging there is a good chance that that the Jury Commission here you've had first hand experience systematically excludes all but —from inside—of more than one (Continued on page 12) of these institutions. These conclusions can readily be drawn from the description of the "average releasee" from the reformatory, presented in the Department's recent research report on the "Social and Demographic Characteristics of Releasees from the D.C. Reformatory for Men."
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THE REPORT confirms the widely held belief that arrests and incarcerations of Black men and women, in jails and prisons around the c o u n t r y , have reached a l a r m i n g proportions. This is particularly true in the District of Columbia where more than 90 per cent of the average daily penal population is Black. Dr. Stuart N. Adams, noted Maryland University professor and Director of research and planning for the Department of Corrections acknowledges t h a t the district's prison population is "growing too Black, too fast." In an interview with MUHAMMAD SPEAKS, Dr. Adams stated that many penal authorities "have come to recognize this problem and are attempting to deal with it." IT MUST be stated however, that Adams' views are not unanimously shared by other prison authorities who favor the "business as usual" approach in dealing with Black people. Most prison authorities here are quick to cite the district's Black civilian population which now stands at 68 per cent. Others refuse to consider the question of racism, and argue, "a criminal is a criminal, Black or white." Dr. Adams, while not justifying criminal offenses, admits that the Black man is finding "that
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I njversilv of f l i i n i o o (Special to Muhammad Speaks) Bitter resentment in the Black community against the University of Chicago has swelled here over what many believe was a punitive "U of C directed" verdict against three Black youths convicted on flimsy evidence of allegedly murdering a white U of C student.
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reasons of having murdered that Black youth. HOW LONG, how long must this i n s i d i o u s kangaroo court spectacle be permitted to continue? A Black man's life is worth less than the expressed contempt of any white thug or hoodlum. A white man's life is perforce immune to the very suspicion that some Black youth or adult has struck him down. "The roots of this dubious interpretation of justice lie directly in the slave history of Black people in this country. Stanley Elkins and W.E.B. DuBois among others have noted that the systematic subjugation of Black people was reinforced by a code of violence against their person that is beyond description. Black men who were considered i n s u b o r d i n a t e were whipped first; if this trait remained their ears were then cut off; if such self assertion was still present they were summarily castrated; the fourth offense more often than not brought death.
THREE YOUNG Blacks were given sentences of 100-150 years (life-plus) following their conviction by an all-white jury for allegedly participating in the killing of the U of C student. The Black youths, Jesse Davis, Theodore Collins and Lamarr Masses are regarded as having been victims of a University of Chic a g o vendetta aimed at preventing B l a c k y o u t h s from coming into the area of its domain; and beRev. Jackson cause no subs t a n t i a 1 evidence was produced to support the guilty charge, observers here felt the University was "lynching" the three as an "object lesson" to other Black youths. The Rev. Jesse Jackson of Ope r a t i o n Breadbasket issued a statement from his hospital bed which read in part: "The sentence having been rendered must now be viewed against the fact that the group of white hoodlums who bludgeoned Jerome Huey to his death while he was enroute seeking employment in Cicero are now walking the streets. "The two who recently returned to incarceration did so due to a subsequent robbery committed by them and not for
"HOW AKIN TO this denigration of our manhood are the actions of the courts of this and other cities throughout the nation. Black people are deprived of any significant voice or choice in their destiny. They are the last hired and first fired; their schools are segregated and substandard and each day brings on another insult to further abrase the injury already suffered.
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ODEYO A Y A G A , President East African Student Union in America. ca," he added. The Nations of Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda now stand high on the list of " p r o g r e s s i v e " countries cited by the EASUA, Ayaga said. THE EASUA has in it's membership students from 10 independent and 3 government-in-exile states. Ayaga listed them as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Somalia, Ethiopia, Ruanda, Burundi, Maurtius, and non-independent s t a t e s , Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Azania. Past Presidents of the EASUA have come from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, beginning in 1961. Ayaga was elected to head the 2000-member union at the annual conference earlier this year. He is hopeful that "everybody will become more conscious of Africa." "There needs to be more exchange between the African governments and the Black man in America," he continued. Since the Black man in America is not represented as a Nation, Ayaga said that he believes that African governments should deal directly with Black organizations. Ayaga also spoke about the p r o b l e m s facing African students. He stated that usually Africans attend white universities in America, and are befriended by the whites, so much so that other Blacks on the campus feel that they prefer whites—and the African in turn feels that the Black American "rebuffs" him. This Ayaga recognizes as a part of the clever acts of deception by whites in America. THE PROBLEM of the African wpmen is the same, Ayaga contends, they are "sometimes left only to go out with white men." The" EASUA, he said, discusses these problems and tries to solve them for the students. "We encourage students to take the African sister out, if only as a friend and sister, but take her out." Speaking again of Africa, Ayaga complained of the white-controlled News media, especially in his own state of Kenya. "This is why we need outside publicity," he explains. Ayaga also stated that the EASUA proposes to fight to eliminate the teaching of "Western values and European history" in the African schools.
Japan's Way to Best Rivals: Export Own Auto Makes, Bar Foreign Makes tomers demonstrated the 10 year rise of the Japanese auto industry—among 11 major firms— from a 47,000 annual production to that of more than 1.4 million passenger cars in 1967. However, the one strange note ballooning from the show was that not a single foreign make was represented, indicative that the Japanese auto industry is THIS YEAR'S showing in the definitely competitive on the docountry's capitol was significant IN MliNCIE, INDIANA VISIT in paraphrasing the conditions and attitudes in Japan's automoMUHAMMAD'S MOSQUE OF ISLAM bile industry. The expected inHeatings: £»ery Sunday 2:00 P.M. crease in new models, technical Wednesday 1:00 P.M. innovations, sleek styling and 1001 EAST SEYMOBE STREET larger crowds of potential cusTOKYO—The Japanese aren't novices when it comes to business swindles, as was demonstrated clearly during the recent annual Tokyo Motor Show which, to them, is akin to the annual auto show in the United States, held to preview coming new car models.
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Letters Wants Black Community in Chicago To Unite Behind Messenger s Program cott against the white robbers in Almost every day a Black man our communities. is killed by a white cop who is The Black communities of Chi- usually subsequently commended cago must get themselves united or promoted for furthering "law first to survive, then to thrive. and order." When did you last Once we 1,000,000 or more hear of a white cop sent to prisBlacks unite we will not have on for killing a Black man? Yet white m e r c h a n t s gouging us the white cop who killed the blind, white politicians running white boy here in Chicago was our lives, and white cops killing given 14 years in jail for manour beautiful Black men. slaughter. BLACK PEOPLE, consider this Sincerely, THE COROLLARY to buying one item as food for thought: A Proud Black Woman Black is boycotting white. For that reason we should wish a man such as Percy Green and Massacre of Orangeburg Black his group ACTION of St. Louis were here to promote not only a Students Cries out For Justice Christmas boycott against white beings—not dogs, cows, or horsmerchants but a year round boy- Dear Sir: Gov. Robert E . McNair voiced es—can be shot down in cold the hope recently that the feder- blood and the "due process of law" takes no action, one is Howard U Dean al grand jury's refusal to indict prompted to deep thought. It nine highway patrolmen involved then becomes evident that the in the February 8 racial inciCites MS's dents at Orangeburg would put most significant implication is THANKSGIVING WILL be no day of thanks for this groi and end to the "speculation and that justice is dead in South Car- of Blacks in New Orleans, picketing the Louisiana State Offi< News Coverage uncertainty surrounding the inci- olina. building in protest to drastic cut in state welfare payment Dear Sir: dent." The judgment of history is They are the pawns in the state's retaliatory move again Your article in the October 11, BUT L E T US make it known upon a state and upon a nation. the U.S. Supreme court's reversal of the state's "man in tl 1968 issue about Black dental that we have not, and will not As black people we must cast off home" policy that stopped payments to unwed mothers livir students and our efforts in their with a male. forget the brutal slaying of black the chains of fear and shame. behalf is an excellent article. We must assume our role as brothers Delano Middleton, Sam Please accept my congratulaHammond, and Henry Smith, men of iron and march on, Wants Establishment of Nations tions and thanks for "telling it who while in the prime of youth march on together to mold the as it is." were shot down in cold blood. destiny of man. Holiday to Honor Black Heroes Your objective reporting has They fell . . victims of the racSincerely, i n c r e a s e d my appreciation of ism, hatred, and injustice of tion, fashion show and sale, boo Dear Sir: Velma Love and respect for your paper and white America. Black people have long been exhibition and sale, dance pei the Muslims in general. I am pardenied their day of celebration: formances and speeches on ou SHABAZZ ENTERPRISES ticularly impressed with the Mus- All hell broke loose in Orangea day to remember the Black Black forefathers are just som CONTRACTORS SPECIALIZING IN lims quest for excellence in all burg, and the shots resounded in of the planned support. heroes of the past. the h e a r t s of black people PAINTING C ROOFING that they do. thoughout the nation. We sumBIG BROTHER of Cambridge BIG BROTHER is asking fo Please convey my thanks to moned every ounce of self-con- 10OI Vx EAST SEYMORE ST. 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Federal Law Demands More Blacks Be Placed on Juries WASHINGTON—Federal courts across the country are anticipating enactment of a new law next month which requires federal courts to seek more Black and members of other m i n o r i t y groups as jury candidates. The measure was in r e s p o n s e to charges in the Black community that p e r s o n s facing Federal charges were subject to a "legal lynching" in the face of racist all-white juries. It is hoped, according to Federal officials, that the measure will set a precedent for local and municipal courts. The Federal Jury S e l e c t i o n Act, which was passed in Congress last March, requires that jury selection be carried out on a random basis and that daily pay allowances be doubled to $20. THE ACT, which goes into effect Dec. 23, was preceded by the distribution of questionnaires to persons who "will be pooled for"
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Young Miami Muhammad Speaks Courier Sues Over Police Brutality, and Wins MIAMI—Several months ago MUHAMMAD SPEAKS carried the story of Robert Q. Owens, the 17-year-old Afro-American youth who was dangled by his heels from a Miami bridge by two racist policemen. SHORTLY AFTER this incident Owens joined the Nation of Islam and is now Robert 17X. He sued the policemen in U.S. d i s t r i c t court, charging them with violating his civil rights.
Recently, the city was forced to make a $4,500 settlement with Robert 17X. The p o l i c e m e n had pleaded guilty to taking Brother Robert in custody at a pool hall last spring and driving him to the unfinished expressway bridge 75 feet above the Miami River. After dangling him from the bridge they forced Robert 17X to undress and one officer punched him several times in the stomach and chest, then drove away.
Mozambique Guerrillas Hit Portuguese Installations enemy troops at Kavaza village, near the Malawi border, resulted in 13 enemy deaths and more than 40 wounded. Mozambique guerrilla forces engaged colonial troops at Chisson village in the area of Vila Gamito, killing 12 and wounding many others. A few weeks later, freedom f i g h t e r s ambushed Portuguese troops in the chief Domingos area. Two military troop carriers were blown up by land mines and nine soldiers were eliminated on the spot. Guerrilla fighters made a surprise attack on an enemy camp in Sanca Manica e Sofala, and 11 enemy soldiers were killed, four camps were burned down, three Bedford lorries were totally destroyed and a quantity of arms and ammunition captured. Communication equipment in many parts of Tete and Monica e Sofala has been put out of action or completely destroyed. Due to these v i c t o r i o u s achievements by c o u r a g e o u s freedom fighters against the enemies of freedom and independence, Portuguese troops are intensifying their war of genocide The n a t i o n a l director of against innocent and defenseless SCLC's Operation Breadbasket, Africans throughout Mozambique. the Rev. Jesse Jackson, has endorsed a Black consumer Christmas boycott initiated by the Black L i b e r a t i o n Alliance (BLACKS), a n a t i o n a l Black rights organization. THE C H R I S T M A S shopping boycott was announced recently by Robert L. Lucas, national chairman of BLACKS and former chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. In a telegram to Lucas, the Rev. Jackson states: " I support your determination to raise crucial issues over the status of Black people in this nation by launching an economic withdrawal campaign at the Christmas season. Nothing will more vividly portray the cruelty of an overcommercialized, debt - ridden Christmas as America's ghettos and it will also underscore the political impotence of Black people who inhabit those ghettos. This action will transform a holiday into a holy season of justice, peace and freedom." The purpose of the boycott, according to Lucas, is: "to sharpen the issue of economic exploitation of Black people by merchants and businessmen within and outside of their communities." (Pan African Press) L U S A K A , Zambia—Mozambique freedom fighters lost one of their greatest leaders when Mazunzo Million Bobo laid down his life in a fierce battle against P o r t u g u e s e fascist troops at Chale Ngone Camp, in the area of Vila Gamito, a Portuguese administrative post near the Malawian border. DESPITE the death of Bobo, the guerrilla attack resulted in an overwhelming v i c t o r y for COREMO (the Committee for Revolution in Mozambique) fighters, who overran the post, killed or wounded more than 90 Portuguese s o l d i e r s and captured large quantities of weapons and munitions. Freedom fighters, led by COREMO are encouraged more than ever by scores of victories they are inflicting on colonial troops. A guerrilla operation against
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Both officers have now been dismissed. After joining the Nation of Islam, Brother Robert 17X became part of a five-man MUHAMMAD SPEAKS sales-team which sells about 5,000 papers weekly. THE TEAM is the pride of Muhammad's Mosque #29, they travel in every major city in Florida and cities in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. One of the team members, Robert 16X Sears, fearlessly refused to be drafted in the U.S. Army. Racists sent him to a mental hospital for five months, trying to shake his determination, but he remained firm. He is now out on bond and will go on trial Dec. 10.
TOP SALESMEN of MUHAMMAD SPEAKS in Miami area are (l-r) Phillip 3X Washington, Robert I6X Sears, Billy Jackson, Robert I7X Owens and Peter X Sanders. They hold trophy for Outstanding Service after reaching almost 5000 weekly newspaper sales. Robert I7X Owens was recently awarded $4500 after two Miami police were found guilty of brutalizing him by dangling him over bridge and punching him.
Why Blacks Are Jammed Into Jail (Continued from page 7)
middle class citizens lends support to Adams' explanations. The ACLU's brief came as a result of a survey of jurors taken from February, 1967 through October, 1968 which showed that Government employees constituted 63 per cent of the jurors, while the poor constituted 1 per cent and persons under 35 made up only 13 per cent of the jurors. ONCE A Black man receives sentence in the District's Courts, he becomes one of nearly 3,000 Black men and women languishing in the department's institutions. Dr. Adams said that he did not believe that an explosive situation has yet developed at the Lorton Reformatory, but he did concede that growing evidence indicating that any sudden increase of the Black population in cities and institutions creates an inflammable s i t u a t i o n , would warrant such a conclusion. At least one of Adams' theories on the increase of Black prisoners rest upon "the heavy
concentration of Blacks, with different ideals and behavior and long latent hostilities," in the ghettos. ADAMS contends that these B l a c k men and women are viewed with suspicion and distrust by the middle class, and apparently "do things which annoy their better off neighbors." Another consequence of this situation is the policeman's reaction to middle class sentiment, resulting more often than not, in quest i o n a b l e arrests of the poor Black man. "It is hoped," Adams said, "that less and less reliance will be placed on prisons and more and more attention given to 'preventive measures.' " In this era of "law and order," and the rising hostility and polarization of Blacks and whites here, "hope," if any, appears somewhat dim. Citizens here, still a long way from home rule, will have to wait upon Congress for any meaningful changes in the present trends. Meanwhile it can be expected
that young Black men will become increasingly subject to arrest for offenses of less and less gravity. And as statistics show, jail and prison climates usually breed the criminal attitude. According to the "Social and Demographic" research report, the young Black man is first committed to prison around the age of 19 and before he is 35 he will have served at least 3 years in the reformatory. Such statistics may come as a shock to all except those who see the penal system as an arm of the "institutionalized racism" in America. FOR THOSE who contend that the rise in the District's Black population accounts for the disproportionate number of Black inmates, a brief review of the " P r e s i d e n t ' s Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia" report, will reveal that when the district's white population was as high as today's Black population (68%), whites made up only 30 per cent of the prison population.
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Death Trial in Elizabeth, N.J. To Railroad Black Scapegoats? (Muhammad Speaks N.w York Bur.oul E L I Z A B E T H , N.J.—In his opening remarks to the jury, Raymond S. Londa, asst. state prosecutor, demanded the lives of 11 young Black defendants on trial. They are accused of stomping a white cop to death during the Plainfield rebellion ~on July 16, 1967. ONLY TWO of the 14-member jury panel are Blacks. The defendants include Gail Madden, 21; Harold Brandon, 19; Lawrence Brown, 20; George Casey, 36; James Gary, 29; Donald Jones, 23; Clement Johnson, 24; George Merritt Jr., 24; Wayne Streater, 21; James Toland, 32; and Robert Toy, 29. A 12th defendant, Bruce Jones, 20, had his trial postponed because of an injury to his lawyer.
In a related development, another Black youth was indicted by the Union County grand jury. Bobby W i l l i a m s was charged with inciting to violence and assault with intent to kill the deceased cop. THE TRIAL, "a mass railroading of Black scapegoats to the electric chair" as one Black spectator put it, is before Superior Judge Chester A. Weidenburner. The case to date has been marked by an unusual Saturday session and rigid security measures in which all persons entering the courtroom are frisked except the prosecutors. As the state calls its witnesses it is apparent that it intends to go allout for the execution of the 11 Black defendants.
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NURSES TRAINING has been increased in United Arab Republic. These young women learn how to treat a broken leg in medical
U.S. Arms Japan at Feverish Rate TOKYO—Despite the frequently recurring anti-U.S. feeling espoused by Japanese students, U.S. arms sellers are busily engaged in rearming the country with as varied and as many American-manufactured weapons and equipment as they can, to beef up the stockpiles of Japan's "self defense forces." LATEST SELECTION made by the Japanese Defense Agency is the McDonnel-Douglas Phantom F-4, a replacement for the Starfighters as the main weapon of the air force. Earlier acquisitions have been Lockhead's F-104 Starfighter, the Nike-J missile system, and the Hawk missile. Competition is keen between international companies—even between American firms. As an example, Lockheed's Starfighter was the chief fighter plane in the Japanese Air Force until McDonnell-Douglas convinced the Japanese Defense agency that the Phantom was a "superplane." T H E ARMS-SELLERS—they don't like to be called that because they are "selling not just weapons but technology that is helping this country's economy" —have problems associated with doing business with Japan. The U.S. government owns design rights on all weapons and equipment, has priority on the firms' output, and c l a s s i f i e s much of the military hardware for security purposes. T.V.'s $24.95 & Up RECORD PLAYERS & HI-FIs $1 9.95 & Up 7756 S. HALSTED CHICAGO, ILL. 994-6987
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Hear t h e L i f e - G i v i n g Teachings BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS are important procedures for nurses to learn. These young Egyptian girls are both learning nursing and giving blood to provide blood bank "in the event their nation becomes involved in further bloodshed," Arab officials explain.
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A Prisoner's Experience Dear Holy Apostle: I bear witness that your article in the paper recently, dealing with slavery in Alabama and Mississippi, is very much the truth. I visited through Texas (along with a few other states), which was as recently as 1966; and some of the things I have seen and heard that was being done to Black people in those states have proven to be so shocking and terrifying that many people find such truth hard to believe. Take for i n s t a n c e a place called Calvin, Texas. There behind three or four miles of wooded area fenced in by a river at the back is a huge plantation with around 2,000 of our poor Black brothers and sisters and children on it. Signs along the road leading to it reads as such: "private property; keep out; no trespassing; warning, violators may be shot; etc." ON THIS plantation our poor people are living in shacks that are so old and dilapidated that they have to employ the use of long poles, propped up along the front and sides, in order to keep them from falling down. The Black folks on this plantation have never heard or known the use of such things as a television, radio, electric lights, gas stove, refrigerator (or ice box), bath tub, and other necessities of life. Many times, from wind or fires, these shacks fall or burn to the groundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;killing some of the occu-
pants in them. Most of these shacks have no w i n d o w s or doors in which to help keep the wild animals and other enemies out, which consist of wild boars, snakes, and vicious bears and other animals. These animals tear off into the Black folk's houses at night to attack and eat anything they can find, and sometimes knock the whole house down in the commotion that results there from. Old and very foul paper or rags line the cracks and holes of the walls and windows to keep the insects and other creatures out. An old-time pot bellied, wood-burning stove is about the only modern appliance they have or know of. There are sometimes as many as two and three fires in a night in these Black peoples' rat-traps, while the slavemaster lives upon a nice sized hill, away from everything, with a large electric fence surrounding his big fancy house. THERE'S AN old run down school shack, "general store" and a place for the Blacks to get drunk on Saturday nights, as well as a small fire house and wagon on this plantation; and our people don't leave this place for any reason. In fact they find it hard to believe such tales as: "They have been declared free from slavery." On this plantation there's about 100 or more lowdown, scurvy, uneducated whites who are given room and board, along with a small salary for
keeping the Blacks enslaved and from running away. The general rule is that only a relative is allowed to visit any of these people. You have to know his name or what they call him around there. Then, one of the whites on the other side of the fence will go and fetch him, as they put it, and ask him, "Bo, ol' thang, you know this nigger? Whose this? This yo' cousin?" "Yez-um, I reggon it tis." The Black c h i l d r e n attend school up to the fourth year, and then they are put out in the fields and worked worst than beasts, along with the other Blacks. THERE'S NO such thing as a jail or hospital, there. If a Black doesn't pick enough cotton, or do enough plowing, etc., for that day, he is taken in front of his wife or husband, mother or father and everyone and given a whipping by the slavemaster in charge of him. If he does something that displeases or offends a white, he is knocked in the head with the butt of the white's gun or may even be killed as a reward of punishment. On the devil's plantation, there are many of our poor Black people walking around d e r a n g e d where they suffer from the effects of the slavemaster knocking them in the head, or even from fighting, killing, or knocking one another in the head for the amusement and pleasure of the slavemaster. H a Black is found with a
THESE MISSISSIPPI women with their children symbolize plight of impoverished Blacks in the deep south. This group, however, has established its own cooperative factory for producing clothing and other commercial products. knife or gun (trying to defend himself and family against the wild animals that roam about) he is taken and beaten severely and oftentimes fatally by the whites. Many things going on in Texas and other parts of the South need to be exposed, to the eyes and ears of the world. Murder and terror in those parts of "The Great Society" of this socalled free world of America is the order of the day.
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PINK-SKINNED CHILDREN run and laugh and play carefree in TV commercials about fun and expensive toys in prosperous America, but Black children in Mississippi often aren't smiling as they sit idly by newspaper curtains in cardboard shacks with no toys, TV or even enough food to go around.
TEN-FOOT GIANTS won't jump out of this Mississippi mother's washing machine, just aches, pains, callouses, hardened hands and more wear and tear on already worn clothing and cotton IN SOME PARTS of Mississippi, a thirsty bedsheets with holes in them. There are no conveniences here, Black boy has to go outside to the tap to get a drink of water just the same as he must not even indoor plumbing.
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through slavery and miscegenaBy Abdul Basil Naeem so-called "Negroes") way back viz., The Supreme Wisdom, Volby tion (voluntary or involuntary), (Continued from Last Week) in 1930—which was, for many of umes I and II. Sister Anna Karriem and has assimilated the ways us, at least, certainly a LONG In recent years, the U.S. "NaMosque No. 5 and conduct of the white man's In concluding my article in time ago! tion of Islam" has brought out ATTIRED IN THE LONG Garments that are commensurate woman. The Black woman haslast week's "Muhammad Second, since receiving his au- and distributed hundreds of thouwith the standards of modesty patterned her conduct after the Speaks" I stated, in effect, that gust and solemn assignment, the sands of copies of additional and and decency as taught to Muslim white woman who has never a vast majority of the twenty- gentle "Little Lamb" has indeed substantially superior works of women under the wise leadership obeyed laws of a civilized society. five million "Asiatic" (Black or incessantly and most strenuously the Honorable Elijah Muhamof The Honorable Elijah Muham- The Honorable Elijah Muham- so-called "Negro") inhabitants of strived to spread the "word" mad, M E S S A G E TO THE mad, I greet students as I pass mad has said many times that the U.S.A. have LONG and RE- and to invite Black Americans of BLACK MAN and HOW TO EAT them going to and from classes. the white race does not recog- PEATEDLY been urged (by the every rank and persuasion to in- TO LIVE, as well as a set of Yet, there are occasions when nize any principles of decent be- Honorable Elijah Muhammad) to vestigate and accept their "own" three extended-play records. At the Black women who have tak- havior or dress. My beloved sis- relinquish their alien (European- God (ALLAH) and His True Re- the same time, the various Muen the mini skirt as their van- ters certainly if you want the Christian) names, worship prac- ligion (ISLAM). He has done this hamraad's Mosques of Islam guard dress greet me and myrespect of other people you must tices and other (so-called) "cul- "secretly" and privately, that is across the United States have Muslim sister with d o w n c a s t first learn to respect yourselves. tural" embellishments inherited to say, verbally and through the experienced phenomenal growth, Your history and your very na- from and, no doubt, suggestive painfully slow process of person- thereby vastly augmenting the eyes. ture is against such indecent ex- of the bygone era of slavery. to-person canvassing, as well as Muslim leader's official, "vocal" I SOMETIMES wonder is it that posure. strength. Allow me now to e x p l a i n : "openly" and publicly. they are ashamed of their dress? First and foremost, it is an es- Even of his efforts in the lat- In addition to above, the "NaTHE W H I T E woman went Is it that they feel we would tablished f a c t ter category, I believe it is com- tion" today sponsors a score of display a hostile attitude toward without clothing for 2,000 years that the great mon knowledge that the Honor- regularly-scheduled radio broadin the caves of Europe and had them? The words which best exMuslim leader able Elijah Muhammad's inspir- casts, mostly in major urban it not been for Moses (a Black plain the downcast eyes are (Honorable Eli- ing and l i f e g i v i n g teachings centers of the United States, as man who attempted to civilize those of The Honorable Elijah jah Muham- have been readily accessible to well as a couple of TV programs her), she would not be wearing Muhammad; he teaches us that m a d ) w a s Black Americans for at least that amply air the Muslim leadby nature we as the Black origi- the few remnants of clothing you " c a l l e d " and twelve years—for it was in theer's views on topical matters see on her today. However, hisnal people of the earth are duly (i.e., di- year 1956 that his column, enti- and exhortations to Black Ameririghteous. Surely there is noth- tory is a cycle and it repeats vinely) author- tled "Mr. Muhammad Speaks," cans to "go for self." itself within a span of time. Just ing r i g h t e o u s about exposing ized to embark first began appearing in the I cannot, of course, say—beone's body to the view of the as the white woman felt no upon the most Weekly "Pittsburgh Courier" and cause I do not know—just how shame when she was naked 2,000 public. Yet, when one lacks a awesome and later in several other black-ori- many printings the Honorable knowledge of self he also lacks years ago, so today does she go tedious task of ented periodical publications as Elijah Muhammad's books have w i t h o u t shame through the Naeem the insight necessary for underawakening and well. Shortly a f t e r w a r d s , a so far undergone, or precisely streets in mini skirts and other standing his own nature. Thus, imparting "true knowledge of collection of his unique and pow- how many copies of the records attire exposing her body to pubthe nature and ways of others self and kind" to all the "lostc o n t a i n i n g the Messenger's become dominating factors in lic view. Eventually she will re and-found . . of Allah's people erful words of wisdom and en-teachings have been distributed. lightenment were offered to the turn to a state of complete nudiyour life. in this wilderness" (American public at large in book form(Continued on page 17) So it is with the Black woman, ty as she is already on her way to doing and trying to take the she has no knowledge of herself and has seen fit to adopt the beloved Black woman with her standards of a people (the white All praises are due to Allah for race) who have never command- The Honorable Elijah Muhamed the respect of any civilized mad. nation on earth. Everywhere the The commercialization of the white man has gone he has cor- white woman's body is brought rupted the moral standards of out in every Television advertise the people, especially their wom- ment and periodical you pick up. — #*#•; i u n i t s im.Ksr en. Investigate the reports of the White women have commercialincrease of prostitution among ized their bodies in order to prothe women of T h a i l a n d and mote the sale of clothing, foods South Viet Nam since the com- liquor, drugs and c i g a r e t t e s ing of white American troops to which are harmful to you and me. She has put her body to these countries. Look at the Black woman here such indecent use that cosmetic in A m e r i c a ; she has gone industries amass millions of dollars from her frantic attempts to restore a look of youth and Nigerian Oil beauty to her features. LAGOS—Recent crude oil dis- My dear sisters, why must you coveries within 30 miles of theimitate a woman like this? The Alone of alt Nigerian coastline has led Mobil (Continued on page 24) Exploration Nigeria, a Mobile the Negro tenders Oil corporation subsidiary, to beLENNY'S BOOKS "N" THINGS Elijah Muhammad lieve it has a bonanza on its Books [Foreign & Domestic) hands. 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"What Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Mohammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, Has Revealed to Me." By
Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah There are a lot of readers of this article who have many different thoughts and conceptions of this article. THE MAIN ROOT of this article is to stop you from eating two or three times a day which will prolong your life. It takes several hours for the proteins and the vitamins in the meal we eat today to be digested and distributed throughout our bodies. Allah, through the mouths of the Prophets prophesied that when He Comes, He would give us more life — an abundancy of life. The Book does not teach you how He will extend our lives; how He will make our lives worth living; and how we will rejoice in our lives. Now, He (Allah) Has Come and He is teaching me to teach you how to live. How to live is to go after that which is essential for us to put in our body as foods which give life and maintain life in the body. He (Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are Due forever), Has taught me how to teach you the best way to extend our lives and that is through the right kind of foods and drinks. This does not mean we have to eat every herb of the earth', every cattle of the earth, every bird that flies, every domestic fowl, or every piece of fruit that a fruit tree or vine is bearing (as some people think like that). Just a simple food will keep you and me living a long time, if that simple food is good and we eat it only once a day (once every 24 hours).
MONDAY NIGHT, YOU BUSTED A SOUL. BROTHER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD. WEDNESDAY, YOU SOCKED OWE ON HIS LEFT. FRIDAY,SPLIT ONE DOWN THE FOREHEAD. AND SATURDAY, YOU CRACKED OWE IN THE REAR—YOU'RE AjVALL Af?OUN0 MAN,CHARLIE.'
Says All Blacks Must Accept Islam (Continued from page 16)
Nor am I in a position to measure the total, overall audience response generated by these or other official Muslim propagation e n d e a v o r s noted immediately above. However, I think I can still prove my point (under reference in the present essay) on the basis of Messenger Muhammad's writings set down in another "Nation of Islam" literary enterprise, MUHAMMAD SPEAKS.
Reviewing its back issues, I find that the noble Muslim leader's literary production enhancSOME WEAK people think that they cannot eat once every 24 ing the seven completed volumes of this newspaper comprises an hours, but our stomach looks to our brain for guidance and looks to excellent and i n c o m p a r a b l e our brain to be the "boss" of what it should take in. The stomach chronicle of his persistent and does not think for itself. The brain thinks for the stomach. indefatiguable labors in behalf of his mission and people.
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Carolina Blacks Fight White Supremacy 'Integration' Disguise (Continued from page blue 5) bomb. Then I saw them highway traffic. Actually, not enough cars go through Swan Quarter in one day to even add up to "traffic." But the number of jailed young men and women soon ros^to 130 or so, and the racists were stashing their prisoners in jails of neighboring counties. Then, on Nov. 11, the students decided to take over the school superintendent's offices on the second floor of the courthouse. About 12 of them seized the room, led by a militant crew from Fairfield. (The Klan is very strong in Fairfield, a white CBS cameraman said he and his co-workers were verbally abused and threatened in a restaurant there. But the Fairfield Blacks are the strongest supporters of the school and economic boycott.) MAMIE HARRIS, a pleasantly plump, pretty 18-year-old, described the action: "School Superintendent Buckney came into his office and we asked why he was taking our school. He said they needed to turn it into something else, so we said, 'We're not going to Mattamuskeet.' "He said, 'That's your problem.' Then he told the police, 'Clear my office.' The police said they would throw tear gas in. Then Sgt. Smith (the vilest one) started to close the door. Allen S p e n c e r and Donald White grabbed the door and kept him from closing it. Then they threw a bomb in and Donald threw it out. They threw it back in and it went off. " I had been teargassed before at the welfare office and it just burned my eyes, but this one burned me all over. It was a
throw a red one in and smoke came out of it. We jumped back from the door and the police closed it on us. " I couldn't see the door to get out. I couldn't see anything. "Someone found the window and we all pushed to get out. Seven others had gone out the door but we didn't know it. Allen Spencer and I got out on the air conditioner and people yelled for us to jump. I was afraid to because I couldn't see. I don't remember jumping at all but suddenly I was on the ground. I knew something was wrong b e c a u s e I couldn't get up. They dragged me out of the way so others wouldn't drop on me." T h e n s o m e o n e c a u g h t h o l d eft m e a n d s a i d , " Y o u ' r e g o i n g t o d i e r i g h t h o r t . J T h e s p r a y w a s c h o k i n g m e . I f t o i d t h e m , " I f I d o . I'm g o i n g t o d i e f o r m y f r e t * Mrs. Katie Harris, Mamie's d % i , - - M a x i n e Harris (with Mrs. Katie Harris). mother, was outside in another demonstration at the time. She said: "All I c o u l d see was smoke coming out in a forest. I saw Mamie fall to the ground but I couldn't see if she was pushed or not. I saw she couldn't get up and I yelled for mie had pushed Maxine to the and climbed outside the window: movement 100 per cent. Th "They said 'Jump,' but I said I can't frighten us." them to get an ambulance and floor as she ran to the window. " I could tell someone else was was too afraid. I guess I jumped call a doctor." in the room," Maxine said, "be- but I never knew it. I just found "THEY CAN'T frighten ma AN AMBULANCE took Mamie cause after the blue and red myself down where they caught of the Black people in Hj 60 miles to a hospital in Wash- bombs went off, I felt this spray me." The combination of chemi- County any more. And whett ington. Then she waited in great squirt on the front of my sweat- cals and shock overcame Ma- the movement stays nonvioh pain in the emergency room for er when I started to stand up. xine. She passed out for 2% or not (and more and m< half an hour. Neither she nor Then someone caught hold of me hours. Black people believe racists v her family saw the six X-rays, and said, 'YOU'RE GOING TO Mrs. Katie Harris said: "They force them to use violence), 1 were trying to scare the chil- Black people express their p but the doctor told them that she DIE RIGHT HERE.' had broken part of her pelvis— " I was afraid and I couldn't dren, to harm them so they losophy in the song which fi the worst bones for a woman to see. The spray was c h o k i n g would quit the movement or be the air each time they meet break—and would be in a cast me." (Maxine looked down at the pulled out by their parents. It march: ground shyly. Then she said:) I looks that way to me, doesn't it "Before I'll be a slave, I ' l for at least eight weeks. told them ' I F I DO, I'M GOING look that way to you? I have be buried in my grave Am Maxine Harris, a very slender, TO DIE FOR MY FREEDOM.'" t h r e e granddaughters in jail go home to my Lord and bi very dark girl with a noble AfriSomehow, she struggled free right now. But I'm with the free." can face, is Mamie's 12-year-old distant cousin. She looks as if she weighs 50 lbs. Maxine was THE HONORABLE ELIJAH the last one in the gas-filled room. Without knowing it, Ma-
Statement of Hyde County People of African Descent The Hyde County people of African descent recognize the Hyde County School Board's attempt to use Black children as guinea pigs to foster white supremacy disguised as integration. BUT WE realize that real integration here means that the 60 per cent strength of the Black community must be represented in the decision-making areas of our community's education. These areas include: 1) make-up of student body 2) curriculum 3) construction 4) faculty 5) administration 6) location Until the minority European American community in Hyde County is prepared to cooperate with us in correcting the flaws of white racism, as documented in the President's Kerner Report, they are not morally or intellectually qualified to exercise any control over our children. The fact of the matter is that the European American community is seeking to perpetuate a slave structure—including the false myth of wise whites controlling ignorant, happy Blacks—at a time when African Americans are awakening to the rightful use of their unified power. We feel that it is no coincidence that this so-called integration plan was concocted at such a time. BUT L I K E our brothers and sisters in the North and other areas of the South, we refuse to sell our children into a revised form of slavery. SHABAZZ DRY CLEANING tLAUNDRY
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MUHAMMAD SPEAKS
Photo Scenes From Around The World
FAMILY AND FOLLOWERS give the Black Power salute in final demonstration of respect, at the funeral of slain civil rights leader Guido St. Laurent. The late Bostonian was
head of the New England Grass Roots Organization, two members of which were gunned down at the same time as Laurent on November the 13th.
"SHALL WE try here, Mama?" the barefooted Mexican lad of Indian descent seems to say to his equally barefooted mother (carrying his baby sister on her back) as they pause before the entrance to a plush Mexico City hotel. Indians in Mexico, like their counterparts in the U.S., are the most impoverished and oppressed peoples of the Mexican populace.
Strange Drought Descends POLICE STUMBLE over fallen Black demonstrator in order to reach another one after they charged picketers at San F r a n c i s c o State College. Strike by students, faculty, ad-
ministrators and workers was called in support of fired Black Panther instructor, George Mason Murray. Goal is freeing school from racist control.
For Days Over Spain
SPOKESMEN FOR the Afro-American Organization student group at the University of Massachusetts, headed by Robert Henderson, left, gathered for a press conference recently to rescind an ultimatum to university president
John W. Lederle, to disarm all campus police. The students had been granted other concessions which they considered far more valuable to Blacks.
THE WORST drought of the century, causing crop losses up to 75 per cent has brought the Spanish government to the aid of the farmers. Farm worker above is lubricating the parched earth with water hauled on location via a tanker, in much the same fashion as farmers in four other provinces are doing.
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Study Shows Unequal Male, Female Ratios Cause British Student Suicides CAMBRIDGE, England—The ratio of male students to female students in British universities has a definite bearing on the number of suicides among male students in British institutions of higher learning.
C A N A D A ' S FIRST artificial human cornea transplant w a s performed recently b y Dr. Bernie Z u c k e r on patient G o r d o n Shepp a r d , blind f o r 2 2 y e a r s . S h e p p a r d w a s so e x c i t e d t h a t he interrupted the operation to shout " I c a n see, d o c t o r . " The p l a s t i c c o r n e a t r a n s p l a n t is o n e o f m a n y n e w d e v i c e s t o a i d those totally blind.
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Scientist Says Ocean Floor Key to Earth's Development LOS ANGELES—Deep basins of the oceans are an accurate textbook of the recent geological history of the earth, according to W. A. Nierenberg, director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, San Diego.
BY "RECENT" Dr. Nierenberg meant within the last 100 m i l l i o n years, the period in which the world as it is today took shape, the continents and oceans gradually having assumed CAMBRIDGE university had their present locations. the highest suicide rate of the Dr. Nierenberg was a speaker universities tested—23 b e t w e e n at the recent Beverly Hilton 1957-67 for a rate of 27.6 per luncheon of the Achievement Reyear per 100,000 population. It wards for College S c i e n t i s t s also had the highest sex ratio—a Foundation, an organization supyearly average of 9.36 men to porting advances in science by each woman. providing scholarships for young The authors claim Cambridge's scientists. high suicide rate "is incontrover- He said the record geological tible evidence of social disinte- events of the last 100 million
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gration in the student society." Yet they deny that the sex ratio is the only significant factor. Another factor could be the size of the population in Cambridge. By contrast, Oxford "is a thriving industrial town with a much greater population than that of Cambridge. It is therefore easier for Oxford university students to mingle with city people, while at Cambridge, clashes between students and local town youths have served to emphasize differences." Oxford is reported to have had fewer male suicides during the period covered, chiefly because of this reason.
years is best preserved and least disturbed on the ocean floors. Recent progress in off-shore d r i l l i n g and in drilling from ocean-going vessels has made it possible to bring core samples up from greater depths than ever before. Nierenberg is the principal investigator in the deep earth sampling program being studied by Scripps and other marine institutions under a National Science Foundation grant. The cores provide evidence obtainable from millions of years of sedimentation—the run-off from the continental shelves—but they also provide evidence of the drifting apart of the continents, Dr. Nierenberg said. Drilling is being done in several locations in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
NOVEMBER 29, 1968
Says North Viet Nam Bombs Cost More Than W.W. II WASHINGTON—The U.S., ac- In attempting to discover the cording to L P . Stone, noted pub- "damage" done to American citilisher and p o l i t i c a l observer, zens, Stone said the Pentagon "dropped almost 50 per cent a t t e m p t e d to disguise actual more bombs on Viet Nam than bombing figures for North Viet on all Eurasia and the Pacific!" Nam by combining them with STONE SAID his findings were figures from the South. the results of Pentagon statistics made available after the alleged In an itemized count of U.S. "bombing halt" of North Viet- war expenditures on North Viet Nam territories alone, Stone disnamese territories. "The figure which startled us covered that $2 billion was abmost was for the total bomb ton- sorbed by the 914 planes and 10 nages dropped on Viet Nam," helicopters "lost" in North Viet Stone said of his inquest, which Nam territories. "Accidents" to was to discover the cost of the a i r c r a f t cost another billion, war to U.S. citizens. "This was while helicopter damage was esgiven as 2,948,057. The total ton- timated at $300 million. Efforts nage dropped in World War I Ito replace more than 450 pilots killed or lost in the air conwas 2,057,244 tons." The aftermath of the alleged sumed another $202 million in bombing halt of Viet Nam has training costs. seen a scarred, yet valiant Viet- Despite Pentagon attempts to namese people. In the U.S., starv- "mask" statistics on expendiing faces of the oppressed mas- tures, Stone calculated that the ses, attests to the equally devas- total cost of the bombing of t a t i n g economic bombardment North Viet Nam was nearly $4 the American people have with- billion. "Bombs alone cost $3 bilstood. lion!" he stressed.
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(Continued from page 1 6 ) America because as the MessenH o n o r a b l e Elijah Muhammad ger of Allah (God) the Honorteaches that you are the original able Elijah M u h a m m a d has Black woman of the p l a n e t come to show us a new way of earth; your beauty has always life; one that is in accord with a been inherent in you from both righteous people, Islam. In addistandpoints, morally and physi- tion, we as Black women have cally. There is no need for you been used and manipulated by to imitate any one if you will the white race to such an extent come and learn the knowledge of that we have come to adopt y o u r s e l f under the greatest their i n d e c e n t moral conduct teacher of them all, The Honor- through association with them. able Elijah Muhammad. E v e r y t i m e the white man's THE MUSLIM women in Amerclothing designers and factories ica are under the wise and wonplace a style on the market, it derful leadership of the greatest does not mean that they are be-Black man in America, The coming to you. The Honorable Most Honorable Elijah MuhamElijah Muhammad is building a mad. He beseeches you, my dear nation which will encompass our sisters, to join with your own own clothing factories. The gar- kind (the nation of Islam) and ments made will be conducive to be your beautiful self. Islam is LONDON—Pro-people Ghanai- best place for British troops to Since N k r u m a h ' s ouster, Ghanaian internal relations have standards of decency for Black the only decent way of life for an refugees in England marched do that." women. Moreover, the Honorable you because it is the way ofthrough the central city here to The British troops, according to s t e a d i l y worsened until now Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah (God) and His Messenger. protest British plans to send military leaders, were to be sent when they are entering the crisis Allah (God) Who came in theYou will never have to cast your troops into Ghana, where public to Ghana for "training purposes stage. With the influx of U.S. and British monopoly corporaperson of Master Fard Muham- eyes downward again. Instead disfavor with the military gov- and exercises." mad, to Whom praises are dueyou will be able to hold your ernment is rumored to be build- HOWEVER, GCP party leaders tions moving in to usurp the were slow to accept the British economy, inflation has set in forever, beckons you to come head high as a believer in theing toward an uprising. WILLY LUTTERODT, Propa- story. They recalled how CIA-harshly and wages have been and follow him, my beloved sis- one and true bving God (Allah) ters, and cease to imitate a and as a representative of theganda Secretary of the Ghana British agents cooperated to oust frozen to a minimum. most w o n d e r f u l and glorious Convention People's Party said Ghanaian nationalist K w a m e Unemployment is at an allwoman unlike yourself. How can you teach your chil- Black nation on earth the Nation the demonstration was called in Nkrumah. They see the plan to time high. Countless numbers of dren principles of decency when of Islam. Upon acceptance of Is- an effort to change British lead- station British troops in Ghana people are reported living in the you walk about the streets at- lam as a way of life, my dear ers' minds about stationing Eng- as i n s u r a n c e to protect that streets or crowded in groups in one-room a p a r t m e n t s . tracting attention by exposing sisters, your heart will be full lish troops in Ghana where they coup. your body. No decent man would with joy and your lips will utter might be put to use against any want such woman as the mother praise as was written in thepopular revolts. of his children. The Honorable scriptures: "My lips shall utter "We feel it (stationing of BritHOME OF ORIGINAL BEAN PIES Elijah Muhammad has lifted the praise, when thou hast taught ish troops in Ghana) will have Cleveland's newest and semi-ultramodern Asiatic restaurant. W e serve Asiatic moral standards of the Black me thy statutes. My tongue shall very dangerous repercussions," style and American cooked foods. women who have accepted Islam speak of thy word: for all thysaid Lutterodt. "U they want 12434 SUPERIOR AVE. CLEVELAND, OHIO commandments are righteoussomewhere to carry out army and he seeks to elevate the ness." Psalms 119: 171-172. MU 1-9841 OPEN 24 HOURS exercises, Rhodesia would be the standards of all Black women in
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Islam H a s Done For M e Black Man's Salvation, Protection Lies Within Boundaries of Islam By Brother Ralph 3X Witcher Mosque No. 25 What Islam has done for me can be done for all the so-called Negroes here in the hells of North America. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah, Who Came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad (to whom be praises forever) has been summoned by Allah to raise us all. I have known of this great man for 10 years. MY FIRST impression of the teachings of the Messenger of Allah was that the solution to our problem (the so-called Negro) was here. But little did I know of what the problem was. It took me eight years of looking high and low to finally elevate myself to the plane of the mentally, spiritually, physically, and factually awakened — the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah. Now I know the problems we, as so-called Negroes, face and where to go to find the solution. I also know that the problem can't be solved unless the solution is applied—and the right solution must be selected. For we find many so-called problem solvers in our midst today who can't solve a thing at all. They're just taking up our (valuable) time. I know this from personal experience. THE ONLY way to be saved
and to be protected is to stand within the boundaries of Islam (taught to us by the Messenger of Allah, who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praises are due forever) in this day and time. The problems, ranging from narcotics addiction to immoral acts in which we find ourselves (Black men and women) engulfed all too often, make a p l a y g r o u n d of that which is needed to build a strong, upright, Black, beautiful Nation. The problem or sickness of our middle class and e d u c a t e d (white-educated, out-of-the-knowledge-of-self, so-called Negroes), is known as pride—not pride of self-respect or one's worth to own kind; but a foolish one and a blind one (pride).
whom be praises forever, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Let us be proud of unity under one God, one Leader and Teacher. No matter how big one is or how small, we can all be of service to each other (Black men and women) here in America. Come unto your own kind, righteous Muslims of the Nation of Islam. Time is growing short —think on this and do act soon!
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DETROIT—Brother Newman X and Sister Lt. Johnnie Mae X were married at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, November 16, 1968, at the home of the bride's parents, Brother John 3X and Sister Rosie Lee X. THEY ARE proud of an edu- The best man was Brother Nacation which was designed to de- thaniel 5X and Sister Jo Annette ceive us all. They are proud of X was the bridesmaid. their relationships with the deceivers (devils) not only socially, SUPPORT but even intimate y. They do not MUHAMMAD'S LOOKED UP TO by youngsters and adults, World Heavyweight speak of this so loudly in all Champion Muhammad Ali signs autographs for admirers folMOSQUE OF ISLAM places today, but we who look lowing Temple services in Jackson, Mississippi. The beloved YEAR can see it in their appearances ECONOMIC champion, in Mississippi to visit relatives of his wife, was and actions. S A V I N G S PLAN warmly greeted by scores of enthusiastic fans. Islam can save us all. Don't let foolish pride keep you away from the Light of Life (here in Baltimore Mosque No. 6 the hells of North America), the Last Messenger of Almighty God Allah, who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, to modern place of business—where clean atmosphere," he said, echoBy Lonnie Kashif Muslims, and the public as well ing the teachings of the Mes(Washington Bureau) The Grand Opening of the New can have a decent place to eat, senger of Allah. The restaurant will specialize Shabazz Restaurant in Baltimore and where the best food is in steaks, chicken, corn beef. All was held recently, a t t r a c t i n g served." food is prepared on the premissuch personages as famed musician Joe Tex, and Minister Mu- MINISTER RAHAMAN attrib- es, the Minister said. who has raised me and other hammad Ali, H e a v y w e i g h t utes such "success" to the guidPlans are also underway for Black women like me, instilling Champion of the world. ance and leadership given by the other enterprises, such as "Suin us self-pride, self-respect and Honorable Elijah Muhammad. permarkets, Cleaners and Bardignity, and who has gained for THE NEW SHABAZZ becomes "We have clean food, and a bershops." us the respect of the world. he second restaurant opened under the auspices of Muhammad NO OTHER so-called leader Mosque No. 6 within one year. has been able to do this for the THANKSGIVING Located on the West side, 1435 Black woman in America. I am W. Baltimore Street, the fashionSPECIAL proud to be a follower of the able r e s t a u r a n t stands as a H o n o r a b l e Elijah Muhammad showcase of Black economic BUFFET STYLE and part of the sisterhood of Is- strength. DINNER lam—to wear my long garments, According to Minister Clyde hold my head high and say: Rahaman, "pennies saved from " L A S T FEAST "All praises are due to Allah sales of Muhammad Speaks" and BEFORE R A M A D A N " for the Most Honorable Elijah other fund raising activities, enMuhammad." abled the Muslims to open this GOOD F O O D - A L L Y O U C A N EAT HARRIEL'S HARDWARE TRIPLE " E " APPLIANCE DRESSING DINNERS & HANDYWORK TOSS SALADS TURKEY DINNER All Household Appliances BEAN SOUP BARBEQUE LAMB Specializing In Rentoi Equipment Any Reasonable Offer Accepted FOR ONLY STRING BEANS FRIED CHICKEN S T O P I N A N D BROWSE ELECTRIC SEWER CLEANER $2.50 CANDID CARROTS SALISBURY STEAK 9 8 4 8 1 2 t h ST. DETROIT, MICH.
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Fires, Bombs Hit College In Frisco Student Strike SAN FRANCISCO—Many U.S.program; 7) Dr. Helen Bedersom campuses have been disrupted (daughter of Safeway Food's by students fighting mis-educa- vice president) who gives stution, exploitation, racism and dent loans to rich students and powerlessness, but no campus denies them to Blacks whenever has felt the waves of bombs, possible, must be replaced as fifires and fights which have hit nancial aid head by a Black person; 8) general amnesty for stuSan Francisco State college. dents, workers, teachers and adBLACK PANTHER Minister of ministrators involved in strike Education George Mason Murray must be granted; 9) state offiis the eye of the tornado striking cials must not be allowed to disSFSC: the turmoil began after solve the Black Studies prostate and college bureaucrats gram; 10) George Mason Murray fired him from his English in- must be kept on his job through structorship and graduate pro- the 68-69 school year. gram. He told MUHAMMAD SPEAKS Murray said that "this is the that whereas other student dissi- first time in history that a dents had merely seized build- school strike has included stuings and administrators, "our dents, f a c u l t y , administration goal is to take power over the and workers. Cafeteria workers, school so that we can implement janitors and office clerks are striking. And the 'third world' our ten demands." 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Racist conneedy Black students, thus making it "disBlack studies should be award- tempted to cripple the strike by trol of California college system is proved by criminatory," was Dumke's explanation. ed; 4) all unused slots in, enroll- calling for so-called liberal nonment should be filled by Black violent students to oppose the students; 5) in both semesters of strikers by pretending to support 1969, all Black students wishing them. A bomb exploded and igenrollment must be admitted; 6) nited the rear of the auditorium 20 full-time teaching positions as Pentony made his appeal, should exist in the Black Studies Murray said. No one was hurt. LOS ANGELES—A law passed At present, every craft union equal opportunities in the apin California recently makes this negotiates contracts with employ- prenticeship program for skilled the first state to bar exclusion of ers to determine the number of trades." Blacks in the most racist labor apprentices. 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Imported African-Asian THE FORD Foundation has an- The Ford grant is a follow-up trades. going to solve the problem of Objects of A r t nounced a $125,000 grant to fi- on individual grants made this Major contracts for the build- Black youth being cheated of J e w e l r y e L e a t h e r • Gift Items nance research work in Cuba by year for projects to be carried out ing industry involve construction SIS. EUNICE, PROP. U.S. scholars who can obtain per- in Cuba by several Americans of public buildings and, especial4 7 0 CONVENT AVE. THE SHOPPERAMMA mission from Cuban authorities to who have been granted State De- ly, highways. E x c l u s i o n of (Nr. 1 5 1 s t ST.) DEPT. STORE work in the island country. N E W Y O R K CITY IMPORTS & EXPORTS partment clearance and Cuban Blacks from the working force CLOTHING - SHOES AU 1-0428 constitutes the use of public At the same time, the Latin permission. 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but twelve—the entire jury, as ple may be happy to show off in protest and demonstrate, as do white people do; Black juries public and will not be giving a Black people. The millions of Africa, Asia and Latin America should decide cases, not merely false impression by so doing. Meanwhile, it must be rememcannot sympathize with and sup- involving Black people, but white people as well, as do white jubered that many Black people port the struggle of poor whites in the same manner and degree ries. In other words, do away have developed distorted minds with this sly implication that from their white a s s o c i a t e s ; as for Black people. ' while white juries can give jus- therefore, it should not be surThus, because a pressing problem has been ignored for 400 tice to all, Black and white, prising to find many who really years, today it is being given Black juries cannot be trusted to think that they are solving the some attention, only because it give justice to anybody, neither race problem by being in the has to be given attention. When Black or white. Though a sly presence of white people in any one group of people enslaves an- implication, this is nothing less capacity for ten minutes, or other group and forces them to than a bold insult to all Black slightly longer. As a matter of work for 250 years; when they people and should be an act of fact, if all Black people working with, or o t h e r w i s e associated discriminate against them, insult, shame for all white people. White soldiers and white powith white people told all they rape, murder and lynch them for over a hundred years after chat- licemen should not be sent into knew that is happening to Black tel slavery has ended, it is in- an all-Black c o m m u n i t y , any- people, a violent r e v o l u t i o n deed difficult to see just how more than Black soldiers and would take place instantly. But such an exploited group may be Black policemen would be sent these are afraid to talk—they given too much attention, or too into an all-white c o m m u n i t y . fear for their jobs and their much of anything else which Black people can handle their lives. These are the integrationdisturbances just as well, if not ists who think that all problems they need. However, much of the "atten- better, than white people can are going to be solved by Black tion" being given Black people is handle theirs. When Black people and white contacts on any terms not needed, and under condi- apply for jobs for which they and at any cost. They won't be tions, should not be accepted. are qualified, don't hesitate; hire able to contribute much to themBlack faces on TV, in newspa- Black people who are qualified selves and less to anybody else. They are standing in the way of pers, in advertisement on bill- for the job. boards, and in pre-arranged pub- After white society has done the progress of the race. lic affairs—all this is designed to convey a false impression of Black and white relations in the 26 African Freed om Fighters Face United States for the effect it Sentences in South Africa creates at home and abroad. Death These are deceptive acts. So CAPE TOWN, South Africa— Africans who are in dire need of long as Black people are raped, Twenty-six African freedom fight- proper medical care. The guermurdered and lynched and nothing is done about it, they do not ers have been apprehended and rilla fighters allegedly planned to need and should refuse such lit- charged in the supreme court turn Victoria West into a militle "niceties." here with plotting to commit tary stronghole from which liberation forces would launch further White people should withhold sabotage and murder. activities. such "attention" until more important things are given effective THEY ARE charged with plan- The fascist state officials said attention, such as: when a Black ning to l i b e r a t e their Black the African prisoners were memperson is murdered by a white brothers in the small town of bers of the outlawed Pan-Afriwhite man, the rapist should be Victoria West, 400 miles North- canist Congress, and that PAC convicted and punished for mur- east of here, between December planned to hit several targets at der, not manslaughter; When a 1965 and April of this year. the same time on an unspecified Black woman is raped by a date this year. white man the rapist should be The N a z i , white-supremacy government a s s e r t e d that the sentenced to die just as readily as a Black man who is accused Black patriots intended to kill of raping a white woman; when white inhabitants of the town, Black students protest, as do seize control of the power stawhite students, and they are shot tion, cut off the electricity supdown by Ku Klux Klan national ply and confiscate medical supguardsman and fascist police- plies with which to treat ailing men, and white students are not shot, some e f f e c t i v e action 774-1578 should be taken in order that the BLACK CAPITALISM cowardly murderers will not be Your O w n Business with encouraged to shoot more Black no Cash. 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Self-Help Program Grows in Mississippi (Special to Muhammad Speaks) JACKSON, Mississippi—When the cotton picking m a c h i n e s came to Mississippi, the white landowners were quick to get rid of the Blacks and other poor who had provided the backbone of their economy since the first slave ship set its stolen human cargo on these shores. COUNTLESS THOUSANDS of Black people s u d d e n l y found themselves with no prospect but starvation in a future for which they had not been allowed to prepare. The few jobs available were soon absorbed by poor whites who also found themselves driven from the fields by the machines. Black people had no choice but to turn to their own talents, a hard alternative since they had no money, no land, little education and few resources. But, with the help of former civil rights fighters who had Vemained after the social hipness of the freedom struggle had ceased for white school kids, the Black Mississippians made a start toward economic independence. One of the results of this was the Poor People's Corporation, an extensive cooperative which is attempting to build support for its efforts to free Black people from the blood-sucking white Mississippi job market.
WORKING HARD to build an independent economic future are these Black women who are making Black dolls for the Poor People's Corporation which is struggling to establish purses, dresses and jewelry, children's smocks to calico dresses," the business manager informs. Rand, who is 25, left a $225 per week job with the world's largest helicopter manufacturer to work with the Poor People's Corporation for $25 per week. However, he insists that he is happy with his decision since he feels "we are getting to the root of our people's problem—economics. It is necessary for us to
establish economic self-sufficiency before we can realistically talk terms." Although the corporation's salaries are not likely to make anybody rich (they average between $15 and $45 per week), the project is providing independent incomes for people who before were forced to depend on white need for employment—and for much less money (about $12.50 per week top).
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ence. ') In a question from the floor WASHINGTON—Dr. L o n n i e directed to Karenga, who advoShabazz told more than 500 stu- cated a "new state," a student dents attending the "Towards a asked, "Why have you not joined Black University Conference" at with the Muslims, and why have Howard university, "The Univer- you not talked about these Black sity of Islam is the Black univer- schools which are already in exsity, and has been in existence istence?" for 38 years." Karenga, while acknowledging Dr. Shabazz, who is the Minis- that "The Honorable Elijah Muter of Muhammad's Mosque #4, hammad made us all Black," made his re- spoke about the need for everymarks at a fo- one to be able to "do his own r u m discussion thing." on "A B l a c k DR. SHABAZZ in responding University: a to the same question pointed out Revolutionary that at least one of the panelists Concept," h e l d sent his children to University of on the f o u r t h Islam, and that the concept day of the con- which the conference was trying ference. to develop has already been deAs a panelist, veloped and put into operation D r. Shabazz's by the Honorable Elijah MuhamDr. Shabazz r e m a r k s fol- mad. He urged the students to lowed those of follow the example laid down by the forum Keynoter, Ron Karen- the Honorable Elijah Muhammad ga, chief spokesman for "the if they are sincere in their efforts to establish a 'Black Uni- PAUSING BEFORE famed George WashingNew Republic of Africa." ister asks questions of curator and director, THE REVELATION of the ex- versity.' Mrs. Elaine F. Thomas before taking the tour. ton Carver Museum, the brilliant Muslim ministence of several Muhammad Universities of Islam around the c o u n t r y created perhaps the most rewarding points of discussion during the entire confer- W A S H I N G T O N —The 5-day at the end. According to official pret the success of the confer- For the most part, conference seminars and panel discussions " T o w a r d s a Black University reports, resolutions and seminar ence in exaggerated terms. papers would not be available YVONNE BROOKS, public re- concentrated upon defining and Conference" at Howard UniverJapan Seen On sity ended as it began—with the for two or three weeks. lations director for the confer- e m p h a s i z i n g the concepts of theme "Towards a Black univer- If, however, one is to judge ence said that "being pragmat- "Blackness," and offering the Verge of Getting sity." from the spirit and enthusiasm ic" it is a matter of "developing rationales for specific points of of the participants, a Black uni- the concept of a Black university view. Nuclear Weapons HOW FAR towards a Black versity is perhaps around the in our minds" at this time. She One major point, which will TOKYO—Not too surprising is university the conference pro- next corner. On the other hand, called the conference a "Beautia statement made recently by ceeded could not be determined many conferees refused to inter- ful thing." (Continued on page 37) Dr. Herman Kahn, U.S. expert on nuclear warfare, that Japan might be the next nation to join the nuclear bomb club. Speaking to an audience of influential Japanese—including Kaneshichi Masuda, chief of the defense agency; and N o b u h i k o Ushiba, deputy minister, foreign affairs, Dr. Kahn said the "most important development of the second half of the 20th century might be Japan becoming the next nation to acquire nuclear Weapons." He added that should this occur, West Germany, Italy and many other countries would rapidly follow suit. i
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NEW-YORK—On a Saturday or Sunday afternoon or on any evening during the week, Harlemites are apt to see and hear six Black and beautiful women on the street corner. They sing songs like "Whitey's Coming into H a r l e m , " "Join the Fight Against the State" and "By Any Means Necessary." The lyrics are their own and warn against a fantastic uptown land-grab conspiracy. THE YOUNG songstresses are Gaye Todd, Juana Clark, Marlayna Franklin, Shirley Jenkins, G h a n y y a Ajuba and Martia Grahm. They are all members of the Harlem Committee for SelfDefense and do more than sing about their protest. They are largely responsible for stickers PROGRESSIVE HARLEM women (from left) Marlayna Frankand Martia Grahm strike up a street ballad in their battle posted throughout Harlem read- lin, Shirley Jenkins, Gaye Todd, Juana Clark, Ghanyya Ajuba, to bring awareness to the people of the community. ing, "Stop the State Building (on (Photo by Joe Crawford) 125th St.) BY ANY M E A N S N E C E S S AR Y ! " and "Harlem Lenox Avenue, near 119th Street. to Lexington Ave. The biggest hospital ( M a n h a t t a n Ave. &the Ford Foundation. Columbia Has No High School. High School Born and living in Harlem, 25- chunk between Seventh and Len- 123rd St.)," said Miss Clark, University is also taking over —Yes! S t a t e Building—No!"; year-old Juana Clark has been ox Avenues, already demolished, adding that the H o s p i t a l for apartment buildings around Harand their work has included the committee's head since it is for the proposed State Office Joint Diseases has similar ex- lem Hospital, a city institution mass distribution of information was formed last February. "Our Building. The other hunks would pansion ideas. "These schemes which it administrates. leaflets, getting signatures on pe- idea of self-defense is getting in- accommodate so-called m i d d l e are not so much to increase and titions, several rallies and an up- formation to Harlemites about income co-operatives near Broad- improve the medical care of the After Miss Clark enumerated what is going down and then way; a Holiday Inn at St. Nicho- community but rather a way to the above and other examples of coming Public Hearing. MUHAMMAD SPEAKS inter- taking action on it," said Juana. las; City Office Building between get Black and Puerto Rican peo- "land - grabbing," MUHAMMAD SPEAKS questioned her more viewed one of the singers, who She charges that plans are un- 7th and 8th Aves; a hotel and ple out of Harlem," she de- specifically about the State Ofis the chairman of the Harlem derway to gobble up the land on private office building at Lexing- clared. fice Building which the Harlem Committee for Self Defense, in 125th Street (the main drag in ton Ave.; and a block-long ga- She also laid it into Harlem Committee for Self-Defense is fothe group's headquarters at 183 Harlem) from the Hudson River rage bounded by St. Nicholas labor figure Joe Overton and his cusing on. It is said that the and 8th Aves. and 123rd and Negro Labor Council who recentproposed, gigantic state structure 124th Sts. ly announced re-development will revitalize Harlem but Juana The fiery and articulate Black plans for West Harlem from Clark thinks otherwise. "Instead woman also voiced reservations Broadway to the Hudson River of an improvement for Black and suspicions about the expan- and from 129th St. to 135th St. people," she said, "it will mean BUSSEE, INESSBUT OPPA ORT NITYKNOW!" INSTRUCTIONS She related that although Over"A HEAP FU EW LEARN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AT Your own mail-order business! Buyer- home using magnetic recording tape. sion plans of two voluntary hos- ton (a former president of HAR- the removal of Blacks—scattering us, making it impossible to member enrollment $2.00. Box 29003, Los Write: Languages Limited, P.O. Boxpitals in Harlem. "Knickerbocker Angeles. Calif. 90029. 52792, Houston, Texas. 77052. 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a cold red, slightly bitter, re- courses at one time. The stress, By Bayylnah Sharrieff freshing soft drink. strain, and tension is extremely I was very excited about my great there among the students. trip south to Wad Medani, and THE MAN who was in charge For one exam is given during of the gahawa and sold the hot the very next day after my re- teas, coffee, and cold drinks the whole year, and if one fails turn to Khartoum, I met with grew so accustomed to seeing that exam, he fails the course some of my colleagues at the me come there that he knew the Much of the honor of the family medical faculty gahawa (coffee type of drink that I would ask rests in the achievements of shop) to tell them about my stay for, and many times he refused their children and the students in the Gezira. to take the cost of the drink know this. Much attention, care, The University was still on from me. We all called him un- and respect is given to the stusummer v a c a t i o n which was cle. This is a familiar practice dent in the Sudan. The Sudanese from March to the end of July, among the Sudanese. Being Mus- students do know that the future but the medical faculty's library, lims they consider one another of their country is with them. study rooms and gahawa were relatives. And, the older mem- This makes them very serious bers of their society they equate students, and a like seriousness open the year around. with the older members of their cannot be found among the The fifth and sixth year mediAmerican university students of cal students (The medical facul- family, for example: The young the undergraduate level. Ameripeople call those who are of the ty curriculum lasted six years. can students are more interested The last three years included age of their grandmothers, grand- in Campus life, or extracurricumother. The men and women of studying patients and a year of lar activities. They, on a whole internship). Some parts of the the age of their parents, broth- think more of amusement than ers and sisters they call uncle science and engineering faculties studying, and now they are disand aunt. One can see in reality pleased with the norm of their were also opened. In universities set up on the te beauty of oneness, of the society. English standard, a college is closely united family just by the termed "faculty." Such universi- observation of the way in which THE HONORABLE Elijah Muties are composed of various fac- the elders are addressed in this hammad puts much stress on obSudanese society. ulties. The Honorable Elijah Muham- taining knowledge so that one mad teaches his followers that may develop wisdom, and have THE MEDICAL, economic and we are one family, the Believers. understanding. He follows the art students (past their second All Muslims (Believers in the teachings of the Holy Qur-an year) I found the most easy to one God Allah, who submit to which encourage the Believer to converse with. They had been His Will; are "brethren" (Holy study and gain knowledge and SECOND PRISON ESCAPE from Alabama prison camp delights exposed to some Christian westshun sport and play (games) Clarence Clark, 58, and daughter, Alice, I I . Clark escaped Quran 49:10). ern culture through their Eurowhich take up valuable time brutal, racist camp 25 years ago, has lived exemplary life in The Sudanese students were a pean and American instructors (Holy Qur-an 5:90.91; 2:219). Colonia, New Jersey, raising family of four. Alabama learned and professors. Some of them very intelligent group of students. I have not found the meaThe European students like the of his whereabouts and demanded New Jersey Gov. Richard had traveled to England and Europe with the World University sure to them among any group American students consider sport Hughes extradite Clark to Alabama prison, but Hughes refused Student Association, and others of students in America with the and play a very necessary part and Clark "escaped" again. with their instructors. A large exception of the Muslims whoof college life. percentage of them had been to study the teachings of the HonorCairo, Egypt which is considered able Elijah Muhammad, who are HEAR MR. MUHAMMAD SPEAK ON modern compared to the Sudan. all eager to learn more of the superior knowledge which the LONG I believe now the reason that I found conversing with them eas- H o n o r a b l e Elijah Muhammad PLAYING ier was because they excused gives out so freely and abundantly to all of us who wish to much of my Christian upbringing which made me awkward in learn. their Muslim society. They took TO BE A student at the Unipatience with me and helped me versity of Khartoum was an honto adjust to the Muslim society. or to the Sudanese. And, they As we sat in the medical stu- respected that honor. Only the dents gahawa, we had a soft top of their secondary school gradMUHAMMAD cold drink called kirk-ka-day. uates were selected to study at Kirk-ka-day is very high in Vita- the university. The system of SPEAKS min C. It reminds one of small study is very strict there. If a dried flower petals. It, like many student fails one course, that of the food stuffs and drinks are student will have to repeat all of stored dried in the Sudan. his courses for that year, not One adds cold water and sugar just the one he failed. There is to the dried leaves and lets it no summer session to make up stand a short time. The leaves for a failed course. Nor can one are then drained off and one has mix up first and second year
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How Education at Muhammad's University Provides Base for Progress and Unity become the habitation of devils, order to fulfill the prophecies of and the hold of every foul spirit, The Judgment, as recorded in and a cage of every unclean and the Holy Qur-an and Bible. hateful bird. "One of the attributes of Allah, "For all nations have drunk of The All-Wise God, Who is the the wine of the wrath of her Supreme Being, is knowledge. fornication, and the kinds of the Knowledge is the result of learnearth have committed fornication ing and is a force or energy that with her, and the merchants of makes its bearer accomplish or the earth are waxed rich through overcome obstacles, barriers and the abundance of her delicacies. resistance. In fact, God means "And I heard another voice possessor of power and force. from heaven, saying, Come out The education my people need is of her, my people, that ye be not that knowledge, the attribute of partakers of her sins, and that God, which creates power to acye receive not of her plagues. complish and make progress in "For her sins have reached the good things or the righteous THE ANSWER to this very im- unto heaven, and Got hath re- things," says the Honorable Eliportant question has been quoted membered her iniquities." (Rev. jah Muhammad. He further MUHAMMAD UNIVERSITY of Islam No. 2 Principal Sister to us by the Honorable Elijah 18:2-5) states that His people must first Agnita X, explains much-praised education program of the Muhammad in His MESSAGE be educated into the knowledge Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah, to members M E S S E N G E R Muhammad TO THE BLACKMAN IN AMER- states, "There is no doubt in of self. of Chicago school district 20 Human Relations class. Messenger ICA, page 265—"Corruption has anyone's mind today that the Muhammad's program is an acknowledged pace-setter in the appeared in the land and the sea conditions of the nations are BLACKMAN of America, you correct education of the children of the once-slaves, and looked on account of that which men's such that a ruler who is not are now demanding the teaching up to by many as a place to find answers to the problems which hands have wrought, that He involved in the present world of of Black history. Yet you settle are now confronting the public schools. may make them taste a part of corruption is needed to bring for the teachings about Black that which they have done, so about peace and good will people who have helped make history for the white man. When that they may return." (Holy among the people of the earth." you are inclined to delve deeper Qur-an 30:41) He teaches that Allah (God) into your past, you learn of the "And he cried mightily with a has appeared in the Person of existence of flourishing civilizastrong voice, saying, Babylon the Master Fard Muhammad, to tions of Blacks in Asia and Afrigreat is fallen, is fallen, and is Whom pra'ise is due forever, in ca long before John Hawkins and the slave traders. Here you LONDON—Revealing the stran- a high ratio of industrial to gem must stop. You have reached the glehold Nazi South Africa and stones; c o n s e q u e n t l y , if this point where the teacher's knowl- European plunderers still main- trend persists, the average price tain on the so-called "indepen- per carat will be low." edge of Black history ends. London officals of De Beers dent" territories landlocked inmighty Nation. He turns his By Kathleen X Holman For 38 years, we have had one Muhammad's Mosque No. 25 back on smoking, d r i n k i n g , in our midst whose mind con- side South Africa, De Beers Con- also described the Botswana find The Honorable Elijah Muham- partying, and vice. He takes tains trillions of years of the solidated Mines Ltd. recently re- as a "major diamond discovmad, Last Messenger of Almigh- time to construct a wholesome Blackman's history, as also writ- vealed that its geologist found ery," but emphasized that it is ty God Allah, has founded an life for his family and himself. ten in prophecy. " I will raise diamond-bearing volcanic depos- too early to assess its precise educational system for the so- He disassociates himself from them up a Prophet from among its at Orapa, Central Botswana, potential value. It is openly acknowledged that called Negro in America. Every the mealy-mouthed and the re- their brethren, like unto thee, formerly Bechuanaland. De Beers will plunder Botswana one of his Followers is a stu- bellious. He ceases uncle-tom- and will put my words in his H. F . Oppenheimer, chairman of the vast store of diamonds, dent. We, the Believers, have a m i n g and foot-shuffling; and mouth; and he shall speak unto of De Beers, said: "The dia- while African citizens of that stops rock-throwing and fireprogram that equips us to cope them all that I command him." monds recovered so far indicate country remain in abject poverty. with every phase of modern so- bombing to gather energy and (Deut. 18:18). strength to establish the best ciety. "Behold, I will send you Elijah principles for action. the prophet before the coming of THE UNIVERSITY of Islam is designed to educate and reedu- M E S S E N G E R Muhammad the great and dreadful day of cate the Black Man in America. teaches Islam. He teaches the the Lord: And he shall turn the Every Muslim is privileged to aims and principles which insure heart of the fathers to the chilattend regular, weekly classes the Black Man's future on the dren, and the heart of the chilwhere he learns his role and top of civilization. Students of dren to their fathers, lest I come function as a member of the Na- the University of Islam are guar- and smite the earth with a tion of Islam and as a member anteed money, good homes, and curse." (Malachi 4: 5,6) "For of this society. He tones his friendships in all walks of life. the Lamb which is in the midst body, while repairing his mind. We learn, and are successful. of the throne shall feed them, The student of Islam learns the But this is only primary, the and shall lead them unto living proper foods to eat and the Messenger teaches. For all those fountains of water; and God health habits to adhere to so that follow him, the Messenger shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." (Rev. 7:17). This that he will be able to stand says, there is only the best. strong, tall, and upright. He Islam is offered to you, the prophet spoken of is The Honorprays and fasts for Divine Guid- Original Man. Become a student able Elijah Muhammad, the last ance. And he learns to clear his of Islam. Become righteous, hap- m e s s e n g e r to a people who mind of unclean and unproduc- py, and successful. Follow the would be without the guidance of tive thoughts so that he will be greatest teacher, the Honorable Allah at the end of the world able to p r o g r e s s in positive Elijah Muhammad! (Continued on page 37) areas. 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He contributes his PHONE: 2 3 1 - 9 4 9 9 CALL 7 6 1 - 3 4 9 3 A G r o w i n g Institution of L e a r n i n g money and efforts to build a THE UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM No. 1 Detroit, M i c h i g a n — N o . 2 C h i c a g o , Illinois UNITY BODY SHOP A T T E N T I O N HAS MOVED TO Immediate Occupancies in the Elementary Grades and High School MathSPECIALTY P R O M O T I O N S D O E S IT A G A I N ! ! Always first, foremost a n d . 6 5 0 4 EUCLID AVENUE ready to serve your needs in Islamic Literature, we can now moke available to ematics, Science and Languages: English, Arabic, French and Spanish. By Sister Agnita X Principal Muhammad University of Islam No. 2 The knowledge of the destiny of the so-called Negro and the t r e m e n d o u s impact that his awakening would have upon the world has remained buried for the past 6,000 years amidst the tricks and propaganda of the man-made devil. 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I t is imperative that black w o m e n become not only aware of needless expenditures in their daily routines but also should be aware of the "tricknology" that has been skillfully exercised to strip us bare of our resources to the advantage of our enemies and to the continual heaping of shame upon the so-called N e g r o doorsteps and households of America.
F O R T H E black people, there are no restrainng laws for our protection. As a result, we are continually filling our systems with this devil's "fire w a t e-r" and must continually pay the price. The so-called Negro, as a minority group, is the worse afflicted because of this one beverage more than any other people. First, as long as we go along with this kind of inhibition of our enemies' freedom, we cannot exercise the proper controls over our families and community life.
NOW, L E T T H E women arise in protest. Not two or three from individual families, but the mothers and wives of 22,000,000 so-called Negro households across the American nation in self protection and unite against the hazards wrought by the use and consumption of alcohol. It is a great sin for any black family, which may not be personally afflicted, to resist the responsibilities of working to prevent this venom from rotting the fiber of our entire nation.
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— - T H R E E exploitative devices have been used to grant revenue to our enemies' empire. These three devices have figured in quantitative advertising throughout the American Nation. They are alcoholic beverages, t o b a c c o (mainly cigarettes) and entertainment. These three h a v e sold many of our people into the hands of the devil. The statistics on the consumption and participation in these three areas are more alarming than the deciphered figures on dope and narcotic addictions, and the alleged high crime rate that has been identified as the blight of the black s e c t o r s of America.
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W H I L E T H E white man busied himself cutting us off from his educational institutions, restaurants, neighborhoods, and public transportation facilities and rudimentary privileges of social and economic life in his great society, why did he not a l s o vigorously apply his work in prohibiting the distribution of his alcoholic brews to our community stores and neighborhoods? After tempting us to disorder and transporting t h i s poison with license into our areas — as well as dumping the worse foods in our markets — he then shakes his head at us and asks why we don't clean up our drunken fathers, brothers, relatives and womenfolk. Then, he boldly proclaims to the world in a second breath that the black people don't care about anything except getting drunk on the weekends, after he fills our streets with wine and whiskey bottles.
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Black School Administrator Wants Emphasis on Education in Home Black parents were not sufficiently involved in their schools —despite wide support in the battle for community control of ghetto schools. "Real involvement," she pointed out, "also means talking to your children and showing them right from wrong in school and SHE SAID Black parents are out. A lot of times children will putting "too much emphasis on say nastily to a teacher "my such things as school clothing mama said you can't touch me." SPEAKING AT a conference of and not enough on seeing to it She added that she was often ical r e l i g i o u s figures, Mrs. that their children learn in the shocked by the ability of even laudia H. Ward told attendees schoolroom. pre-school children to curse vio"Parents seem to make sure lently and defy a teacher's inthere is too much emphasis in tie home on things that are not that a child is wearing red socks structions. .ducational . . . that hurts as to match a red dress or red "WHEN PARENTS come to mch as Albert Shanker (leader shirt, but they do not put enough school," she continued, "they off a teachers' union which op- of their money into things that ten take things out on the teachoses c o m m u n i t y control of are educationally sound. er, be she Black or white. And "At Christmas time," she con- the child thinks he can do no chools) or the board of educatinued, "they might buy a child wrong. I n s t e a d , the parents on." Mrs. Ward was highly critical a $39 doll carriage and forget should take the children into the I homes where "there are four about books and t h i n g s that kitchen and give them a workover." •levision sets but not a single might help a child in school." Turning to the battle between MRS. WARD charged that ictionary. I get the feeling," the community and the teacher's union, Mrs. Ward said teachers Air Pollution Wins Court Suit who were going out on strike in support of the union position NEW YORK—A Brooklyn car- broke and the plank fell on Ku- were "turning their backs on the enter blamed air pollution for ras causing multiple skull frac- city's children as if they were njuries he incurred in an acci- ture. not children but stamp presses '.ent in which he was struck by THE DEFENDANTS—the rent- or drills. falling scaffold. al agent which owned the sling "And you know what happens In a recent court settlement, and the owner of the building when you turn your back on a aidrew Kuras was a w a r d e d under repair—lost judgment on child," she intoned. "Things are 100,000 in B r o o k l y n Supreme the grounds that materials pol- different when you turn back to ;ourt when he contended that luting the air had worn away at him again." iolutants in the air weakened the rope, and neither party had Herbert C. Oliver, a commuope that was supporting a wood taken this factor into account nity l e a d e r , called union at:lank scaffold suspended from a and replaced the rope periodical- tempts to remove several Black )uilding under repair. The rope ly as was necessary. principles in the district a manifestation of the white man's atJOHN AND DAVID'S tempt to "destroy our male imAUTHENTIC BAKERY CITY OF RECORDS age." She emphasized that Black W e H a v e Records of All Kinds. Custom Where The Famous and Puerto Rican children must M a d e Tapes, C a r / H o m e Electronics, Stereo Bean Pie Is Served see males of their own race in Equipment, S p e a k e r s Installed. (TWO L O C A T I O N S ) 1 1 1 0 S o . G a r e y , 5 8 0 E. L a v e r n e positions of authority if they are 4215'/i S. Broadway 232-9258 At Town A v e . to reach maturity with a mea5618 S. BROADWAY 232-9170 P o m o n a , Calif. 6 2 9 - 0 6 8 9 Los Angeles, California sure of psychological stability. she stated, "that poverty has nothing really to do with this probem." The school administrator indicated that she feared Black parents were placing all the stress on acquisition of material things and living "up to the Joneses."
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Black Education Conference (Continued from page 30) apparently be left unresolved is the thrust towards a Black university "within the system" as opposed to "pulling out of the system" and b u i l d i n g from "self-help." A concensus of opinion however did reflect a penchant toward an ultimate "Nation-state" objective. The Keynote speaker for the conference was Stokely Carmichael, who appealed to students to avoid "putting on Afros and then shouting, 'get the nigger Uncle Tom,'" to prove their militancy.
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THROUGHOUT the conference there was the strong feeling of sobriety, despite the matter-offact outward e x p r e s s i o n s of many of the students. Perhaps the most significant p l u s f a c t o r to come out of this conference is the realization that being "Black" carries with it the responsibility for m a k i n g practical contributions now to the uplift of Black people. Carmichael predicted that "Black people won't be allowed many more of these conferences." Among the confreence participants wer Leroi Jones, Ron T U S K E G E E INSTITUTE students turned out by the thousands Karenga, Rev. David Eaton, As- to greet Minister Muhammad A l i , only true world heavysociate Dean of Federal City College; Rhody McCoy, Oceanhill-Brownsville school, N.Y.; Dr. P.C. Onwauchi, Fish University (Continued from page 33) and others. BLACKMAN, you are demanding decentralization and control DR. LONNIE SHABAZZ, Mus- and must be redirected to the of the ghetto schools. This is a lim Minister of M u h a m m a d ' s path of Allah. step in the right direction, the Blackman, you are living in Mosque No. 4 in Washington also desire to improve the quality of accepted the conference invita- the time of the judgment of the education of the Black child. tion to address the students as white America, a time when all It shows parental influence and panelist on the "Revolutionary is made manifest. The former interest. It will build rapport Concept" forum and "the role of slaves, now with tearless eyes among child, parent and teacher. religion in a Black University" and straight tongues, are without It puts fear into the politicians fear. seminar. who have controlled and directed the corrupting of the educational system as it exists in the ghetto schools. Yet, decentralization is not the solution because Blacks still answer to whites concerning over (Continued from page 29) Poor People's Corporation has all policy. The only successful course is total separation and tight budget. There is little room come a long way. It still has a complete freedom to teach and long way to go before it befor speculation. There are ceruplift our own in peaceful envitain things the c o r p o r a t i o n comes big business, but it is be- ronments such as those which needs, which would help it to ginning to provide reliable and prevail in the Islamic schools expand much faster, that it can- rewarding e m p l o y m e n t for a here in North America. n u m b e r of Mississippi people not afford to buy. who have toiled too long for too BLACKMAN, you must weigh "We need funds and qualified little to be stopped now. and reevaluate your present depeople to train area residents in manufacturing techniques, metalBUT, WITHOUT the support of mands. You must utilize everycrafts, woodcrafts, leathercrafts Black people—who spend up- thing at your disposal to thwart and ceramics. We need raw ma- wards of $35 billion per year in the attempt of the white man to terials and we are in desperate white markets—the Poor Peo- maintain his system of mental need of industrial sewing ma- ple's Corporation, and any other suffocation through acts of apchines which we presently can- Black efforts to establish econot afford to buy," Rand de- nomic independence, stand little 933-4297 933-9380 clares. chance of lasting success. B O N D E D A N D INSURED Liberty House catalogs can be Since August of 1964, when a Three * Cleaning Service Janitorial, Rugs, Carpet, Wall Washing group of poor Black Mississippi obtained by writing the organizaand Furniture Cleaning people decided to use $300 to tion at Post Office Box 3468, HOURS: 7 A.M. TO 9 P.M. begin a self-help program, the Jackson, Mississippi 39207.
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(devil) and unite with your own. "Again, what will make thee realize what the day of Judgment is? The day when no soul controls aught for another soul. And the command on that day is Allah's." (Holy Qur-an 82: 18,19).
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peasement. He appeases you by a l l o w i n g "soul food" to be cooked and sold in school cafeterias. It is difficult to believe that this is one of your demands. The same garbage fed to us as slaves is now fed to students. Are you more concerned with p h y s i c a l rather than mental d i g e s t i o n ? The menu: collard greens, black-eyed peas, hominy grits and chitterlings. How can a particular food make one more black when its purpose is assimilation for nourishment, not pigmentation for improvement. The next class or subject after such a meal, must be SLEEP. Do not aid the white man in his deceit, with foolish demands. He must fulfill that which is written of him.
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New Breed Black W o m e n Joins Defense of Harlem (Continued from page 31) poor to get homes. This is not giving new life—they are taking away any hope for a new life. "Look at all the apartments built around here recently," she continued, referring to Esplanade, River Bend and Lenox Terrace. "The average Black person can't afford them." Well, what about jobs? Won't the State Building and the other projected businesses mean more employment for Black people? "When they tell us they offer jobs, we have to ask what kind of jobs, and for whom?" replied Miss Clark. "So far the record reads like this—a white construction firm, which means white construction workers who belong to the lily-white unions. What did we get? The demolition jobs. We always get those jobs. They pay less than half as much! "What next?" she asked. " E x e c u t i v e s , professionals, civil servants, clerks, secretaries and bookkeepers? Who will they be? Whites for the most part, especially in the highest paid jobs. A few crumbs will be thrown our way. A few hand-picked whiteNegroes will get high paying positions." Continuing temporarily as the devil's a d v o c a t e , we asked whether all the new construction would be an inspiration for Harlemites? "Devilish alright," she r e s p o n d e d . "Like the opera house they plan. What the hell do Black people need with an opera house? How are we to be inspired when they force someone else's c u l t u r e , someone else's standard of beauty on us?" If not the State Office Building, then what? Her answer of a high school came as no surprise because the need is there and Central Harlem is the only large community in the city without one. "There's no high school here," r e m a r k e d Miss Clark, "because a decision was made a long time ago that Black kids don't need to go past the ninth grade." The other needs of the community as Juana Clark and HCSD sees them, and most other Harlemites would agree, are decent housing at rent people can afford (over the last 10 years most new buildings have been high-rise luxury apartments and so-called middle-income co-ops), more public health facilities and day care centers. How does Juana Clark and the Harlem Committee for Self-Defense think they can halt construction of the State Building on a site that has been already cleared and the other "landgrab" projects which are far past the drawing board? She replies that "Columbia University has been stopped from building its gym. Although we don't know for how long, the protest was big and vigorous enough to put them in limbo for about a year now. They will have even greater difficulty getting it started again. If enough people put up a vigorous enough row about the State Of-
fice Building and these other s c h e m e s , we can stop them too!" HCSD is not alone in its fight to resist the land-grabbing plot. Harlem's Planning Board No. 10, a group of residents who are supposed to review all projects planned for Harlem, have also criticized the building of the state office. Also, nearly 20,000 Harlemites have signed HCSD petitions to Gov. Rockefeller. Juana Clark impresses you as a fighter but she is also a realist. She admits that a tremendous educational job remains to be done because the majority of Harlemites either are confused or don't know what is going down. Miss Clark, her group and other i n t e r e s t e d and involved Harlem people will hold a Public H e a r i n g on the State Office Building on Tuesday, December 3 at 7:30 P.M. in I.S. 201, 2005 Madison Ave. The Harlem public is invited. "The white land-grabbers in Harlem are like potato chip-eaters," o b s e r v e d Miss Clark. "They get one and they just keep eating them. The 'man' wants to reclaim Harlem and remove us because Harlem is one of the few truly residential areas left in the city; Harlem has more parks, more wide boulevards than any other area of the city and could be the most beautiful section of Manhattan; Harlem is q u i c k l y and easily reached from any business area in Manhattan; and Harlem is a choice piece of land. "We look around at our community and what do we see? Dirty streets, run-down and unliable b u i l d i n g s , deteriorated parks. We know though that these conditions are caused by the government's neglect and discrimination. If we are to organize for political power, for economic power and for our own development as a people, we must not be tricked. We must not be hoodwinked once again by empty words like 'integration' and 'revitalization,' Juana Clark said.
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B E C A U S E OF MAO TseTung's success, the article stated, "one who is opposed to China, to the Communist Party of China, and to Mao's thought finds himself in the unenviable company of counter revolutionaries. There is no r ~a for neutrality between th' np of revolution and the c? of counterrevolution." THE ARTTCF • .ys the Indian people now re ihat would-be
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Exploiters Fail to Isolate India from China, says Mag NEW D E L H I — T h e Indian monthly, "Liberation" carried an article warmly praising the victories of the great workers' and peasants' revolution in China. The article said that China "not only has taught us how to make revolution in colonial, semi-colonial and other countries" but has also solved the problem of how to carry on the revolution after the workers and peasants are put into power.
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5606 S. Broadway Los Angeles 37, Cal. WED. & FRI. 8 P.M.—SUN. 2 P.M.
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MUHAMMAD SPEAKS
T h e Messenger of A l l a h Presents
Wi)tfflv&XimP r o g r a m Wjat ttje iHusrttmS Want This is the question asked most frequent, ly 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 society. 4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own—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 believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white A m e r i c a , justifies our demand for 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 po lice brutality and mob attacks against the socalled 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. As 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 will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency 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.
tjat ttje Jflustftm* Pelieue 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 Qur-an 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 socalled Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first.
Furthermore, we believe we are the people 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 A m e r i c a n s . 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 imposed upon him by h i s former slave masters. Names which identified h i m 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.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
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 slaves." We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation. 9. W E B E L I E V E that the offer of integration 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. I f the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the socalled Negro, they can prove it by dividing up A m e r i c a with their slaves. We do not believe that A m e r i c a will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20.000,000 black people as well. 10. W E B E L I E V E that we who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in w a r s which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such w a r s , for we have nothing to gain from it unless A m e r i c a agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we m a y have something to fight for. 11. W E 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. W E B E L I E V E that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. F a r d Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims. 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 Jive in peace together.
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