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Don't Cry When They Lynch Me NEW YORK—"Don't worry about me. When they lynch me, don't cry."I know theJfattle I'm fighting. I'm fighting for my people and I'm not going to give up." These were the quiet words of Mrs. Mae Mallory in Cleveland, Ohio, via telephone to her mother and daughter in New York City, just before the courageous 15-year-old freedom .fighter was back behind bars again after an eightday "taste of liberty." Mrs. Mallory's "out" again on bond, but she has spent more than a year in a Cleveland jail and is still fighting exContinued on Page 2)
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F O R 300 Y E A R S here in America the so-callecl Negroes were not allowed to read or write. They were not allowed to visit white church meetings ; consequently, under this condition our forepa r e n t s were killed mentally. And, therefore, they are justified by Allah (God) to be I forgiven for committing the sins of the devils (Caucasian race or slave masters). For they had no knowledge of God and His true religion, Islam S entire submission to the will | of Allah. (God).
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STATE S E N A T O R J a m e s L. W a t s o n o f N e w Y o r k groes know them to he heart— S e e P a g e 2 3 i n t r o d u c e s a b i l l g u a r a n t e e i n g f r e e d o m o f r e - less, for not a day or night ligion t o a l l , i n c l u d i n g Islam. See Page 1 4 . i Continued on Page 9)
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r e e d o m is B l o c k e d N E W Y O R K — " I t is j u s t a s w r o n g f o r o n e c o u n t r y t o o w n a n o t h e r c o u n t r y a s i t is f o r o n e m a n t o o w n a n o t h e r m a n , " Muhammad S p e a k s C o r r e s p o n d e n t C h a r l e s P. H o w a r d Sr., t o l d a p u b l i c f o r u m on " B l a c k A m e r i c a a n d C o l o n i a l i s m " last w e e k i n B e r m u d a H a l l here. Howard, who heads a news service at the United Nations, declared that Africans are categorically demanding the right of majority rule and rejecting the theorv that property rights are superior to human rights. He spoke on "the Economic Basis of Colonialism." detailing the exploitation by European nations of Africa and the blood, sweat and tears shed by Africans, at the forum sponsored by the Harlem Anti-Colonial Committee. T H E R I C H E S T minerals and material resources in the world lie in an area below a line 10 degrees south of the Equator (which includes Angola, the Congo. Tanganyika, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland. Mozambique, South West Africa and South Africa.) "Independence has run into a roadblock in this area," Howard charged. "There isn't a single independent country south of the Congo." Howard blamed this on 13 large corporations that own and control the valuable resources in t h i s r e g i o n . "They { r e p r e s e n t the i greatest concenjtration of big | money anywhere |in the world," he | said, and wield 'strangle h o l d " (pressure and in| fluence in these I countries, affectSing the lives of all the Africans. The 13 corporaHOWARD tions, comprising British, French, Belgian, United States and South African interests, have interlocking directorates. SELMA SPARKS Howard predicted that "the next great struggles in Africa are ed from these areas by these corin Angola and Mozambique" and porations negates any change in warned that "we are building up their policy as a result cf moral to a tragic blood bath in Africa." or other persuasion," he re"THE NATO POWERS have marked. armed South Africa to the teeth," DISCUSSING ANGOLA, Howard he observed. "South Africa has disclosed that "the Portuguese the most well-equipped army any- have 40,000 armed troops there. where in Africa. They said two years ago that the 'The interlocking directorates r e b e l l i o n was crushed. I have been itching for a fight with can say to you that there are in the rest of Africa," Howard con- training around 6,000 Angolans in tinued. "Thus far the rest of Af- the Congo and more in Algeria." rica has a big army only on paOn the United Nations, he deper. There has never been an clared that "the UN is developing actual get together," he said. machinery that is having a tre"The fantastic wealth extract- mendous influence in bringing
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about freedom in Africa. In 1960, the Afro-Asian bloc got through very subtly a resolution asserting that it is right for men to be free. That is much more important than it sounds. SELMA SPARKS cf the Harlem Anti-Colonial Committee and a delegate at the World Ban-theBomb Conference held in Accra. Ghana, declared that "the major danger of world war flows from those powers that seek to maintain colonial exploitation as a basic part of their continued profit-making drive." She said that today because of the struggles being waged by colonial and former-colonial peoples. these4»xp!oiters are losing what they have viewed as their own property and human chattel. "As a result, desperation and frustration besets these international exploiters and the threat of war becomes their main trump," she said. "The onRr- thing that has served to check them is that they will bring death to themselves if they act too rashly." Miss Sparks insisted that Negro Americans have a stake in the independence struggles in Africa because "our present experience and past history teaches us that those who know oppression can fight against it most clearly, with no illusions to its real meaning."
RAGGED BUT determined Angolan troops drill with wooden guns at a secret training camp. Patriots are preparing to open guerrilla attacks to drive Portuguese colonialists from their native Angola.
Jamaicans Start Back To A f r i c a M o v e m e n t KINGSTON — A petition calling upon leaders of tndepenw African countries to create a fund to assist Jamaicans to return to Africa is being circulated through the city and the island. The petition,"calling the f u n d "The Back to Africa Redemption and Repatriation Fund." also urges assistance in the propagation and promulgation of the African doctrine.
GHANA'S PRIME Minister Kwame Nkrumah's program moves another step forward as Nancy Abadio, center, prepares to return home after years of study in the U.S., during which she developed into a top flight radio isotopes and X-ray Technician.. Nancy receives farewell gift from fellow students (left) Ebenezer Lamptey, Tom Oduro-Kwarten, Ohene Boakye, Emanuel Boateng and Warren Kassery.
Defends Right to Hire German Scientists
(Special to Muhammad Speaks) U N I T E D N A T I O N S , N . Y . — E g y p t ' s a n s w e r to t h e I s r a e l ' s c h a r g e t h a t the U n i t e d A r a b R e p u b l i c is u s i n g G e r m a n scientists to b u i l d a t o m i c w e a p o n s w a s g i v e n e x c l u s i v e l y to M u h a m m a d S p e a k s h e r e last w e e k b y A m b a s s a d o r M a h m o u d R i a d , w h o h e a d s the U A R U n i t e d N a t i o n s m i s s i o n . "We are not the only counThe UAR official iurther stated try using- foreign scientists," that his country not only is using the U A R ambassador said. German scientists, but the talents "The United States has many of scientists from many countries top scientists from Germany, of the world. WHILE DENYING that Gerincluding W e h r n e r Von Braun, who is director of the man scientists in the UAR are N a t i o n a l Aeronautics and building apparatus for chemical or bacteriological warfare, AmSpace A d m i n i s t r a t i o n ' s bassador Riad charged directly George C. Marshall Space that Isra'el itself was building an Flight Center in Huntsville, atomic reactor with the aid of France. Ala."
Mahmoud Riad pointed to the I or terrorize German scientists in France was fingered as the recent action of the Swiss gov- I the UAR. chief source of nuclear help to ernment in arresting several IsThe ambassador denounced Israel. raeli secret agents in that coun- what he called the "Israeli prac"THE ATOMIC reactor in Istry, and the activities of Israeli [ tice" of sending bombs in packagents in attempting to harass ages to German scientists in the rael is capable of building a small atomic bomb." an E g y p t i a n UAR. He charged that a German spokesman charged, "and Israel scientist and five UAR scientists now is selling heavy water to MUHAMMAD SPEAKS were killed by such a bomb. France." Published Bi-Weekly HE ALSO declared the Israeli j Checking the reaction of the • agents have engaged in making Vol. 2, No. 16 April 29, 1963 ! "threats of death" and employing West German government, which j other pressure tactics to panic maintains a permanent observer the families of German scientists here, Muhammad Speaks was Published by told: in Egypt. Muhammad's Mosque No. 2 Muhammad Speaks was told "I don't think the German sci634 East 79th St.. Chicago 19, III. that Egypt is "going ahead with entists in the UAR are atomic ABerdeea 4-8622-23 its scientific progress" in order scientists. As we are informed, Application to mail as second-class pot tog- to build a country strong enough there are eight or 10 German fates is ponding at Chicago, Illinois to offset the kind of invasion it scientists There who are jet engiSUBSCRIPTION RATES: suffered during the Suez Canal neers, and two are working on In Chicago 12 b n « $1.50, 24 l.iuo. $2.40; crisis. rockets." Outside Chicago, 12 Isiuet $1.10.
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L O S A N G E L E S — Selection of a jury for the crucial trial of 14 Muslims proceeded slowly here in the midst of an atmosphere of hostility from the white press and grave concern expressed in many Negro communities throughout the nation. | While the trial preparations Evan Lewis, in charge of the I go on inside the courtroom of prosecution, said he expects ' Superior Court Judge David to call about 70 witnesses | Coleman, (the same Judge during the trial, which is exj who heard the third Finch pected to take more than 10 i trial) questions asked in weeks and which observers ] many X e g r o areas were here predict may be one of these: the most explosive in the na" W H Y A R E M U S L I M S , tion's history. who were targets for police A T T Y . B R O A D Y , who is t bullets that killed one of them, defending all 14 of the Musj wounded six others and paralims, said he too will present ! lyzed another, on trial?" And "wliy are 200 specially witnesses to nrove his contenj armed officers located in the tion that tlfe accused men j courthouse while the jury is were unarmed and merely ' being selected when it is well acting in their own defense. The internationally reportknown that Muslims carry no w e a ]) o n s whatsoever and ed incident had its beginning on April 27. 1962. when two i eschew violence?" w hite-- pi dice officers decided A M I D S U C H AN A T M O S to question "two male NeP H E R E Defense Attorney groes" (as the police called Farl Broady asked prospecthem) who were s e l l i n g I tive jurors if the fact that the MINISTER JAMES Shabazz of Muslims were a "so-called clothes from a parked car-at 37th and Broadway. Chicago, who is acting as the anti-Christian sect" would afOfficial Representative of the fect their judgment. But soon after the "quesHonorable Elijah Muhammad, Broady inquired also if the tioning started," more than 50 at the Muslims Trial. Due to ill- fact that the defendants were cops had shot down seven unness Mr. M u h a m m a d dis- N e g r o e s would bear any armed Muslim men. One of patched Minister Shabazz to weight in their determining the men died in the street and Los Angeles to act in his be- guilt or innocence. another is paralyzed from the half. Deputy District Attorney waist down.
WIDOW of the late Ronald Stokes, Mrs. Dolores Stokes, holds her infant daughter, Saudi. With them in photo is Minister John Morris of the Los Angeles Mosque, who is charged with "assault" with intent to commit murder. Police then ransacked a nearhv Muslim Mosque, disrupting worship service, and ripped the clothing of Muslim brothers gathered there. Officers said they invaded the Mosque because they "heard" a gun was there. No gun or any other type weapon was found. D U R I N G the hearings last December, Officer D o n a l d Weese, who cooly admitted slaying Ronald Stokes, said he emptied his gun into the bodies of five men, hit a sixth over the head with the empty revolver, and ordered the wounded men handcuffed as thev lav bleeding on the sidewalk. Stokes, it was revealed, was more than six feet from Weese and had his arms upraised when he was fatally shot.
Thirteen of the Muslims are charged with "resisting arrest" and "assault." The fourteenth, Minister John Morris of the local Muslim Mosque, is accused of "assault" with intent to commit murder. ALTHOUGH POLICE C L A I M that Minister Morris "shot" Officer Frank Tomlinson during the wild conflict, they waited almost six months after April 27 to arrest Morris for Tomlinson's shooting. The thirteen other defendants are Nathan Rivers, 36; Troy Augustine, Jr., 21; Randolph Sidle, 30; Raymond Willey, 21; William Rogers, I 26; Arthur Coleman,-Jr., 27; j M o n r o e Jones, 21; Fred Jingles, Jr., 23; Lewis R . Bucie, 27; Elmer Craft, Jr., 22; Charles Zeno, 35; Roosevelt Walker, 27, and Robert Rogers, 19.
A Mother's Long Freedom (Continued from Page 1) tradition to Monroe, North Carolina, where she is accused of "kidnapping" a white couple during a night of terror when white racists attacked Negroes in 1961. In the Harlem apartment of Mae Mallory lives her mother, Mrs. Willie Lee Brown and her 17-year-old daughter, Patricia Mallory. As tears streamed down her cheeks, Mrs. Brown related the last telephone conversation with her daughter: "I pleaded with her, 'Mae remember you got two children.' " She replied: "Yes, I know, Mother. But what good is the life of my two kids living in a hell like this? It is no good for me and it is no good for my children." "PATSY (Mae's d a u g h t e r ) couldn't talk or listen to her moth- school. He stays with an aunt in er anymore, she ran into the Brooklyn. PATRICIA MALLORY MAE MALLORY bathroom and began to weep. I "I have gone through manycouldn't console her because I miserable days and nights with , was impossible because there City by focusing attention on the didn't want her to see me cry- my burden and with Patsy's bur- jwere no cemented sidewalks. So plight of Negro youngsters ening," said Mrs. Brown. den too," indicated Mrs. Brown. ! Mae, with a Negro friend of hers deavoring to secure a decent eduIt has been a very tiring ordeal "It is especially hard when I see i went to a white neighborhood cation. for Mae Mallory's mother and Patsy, who is very devoted to where there was a place to "AS A RESULT of this presskate." Mae's c h i l d r e n . Mrs. Brown her mother, in tears," she said. sure, beginning measures were works in a New York City hosMrs. Brown migrated to New adopted to correct the overcrowdMRS. BROWN talked about the pital, keeps up her daughter's early years in the life of her York City with her daughter ing and jim crow nature of HarHarlem apartment and cares for only child: "Mae was born in I when Mae was 10 years old. lem s c h o o l s and their curricuher granddaughter, Patricia. Pat- Macon. Georgia. She has always "When she was grown, I was lums." sy will graduate from high school been a fighter for equal justice, jeven prouder of her," commentThe reason why her daughter in June but faces an uncertain from childhood on up. I recall i ed Mrs. Brown. "Mae was one of was kept under lock and key, in future. when she was seven years old jthe Harlem Nine who initiated contrast to other Monroe defendMAE'S OTHER child, 16-year- and wanted to roller skate. In' the fight against segregated and ents who were free on bail pend; old Keifer, is a junior in high our jim crow neighborhood this : inferior schools in New York ing trial, was because of her
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"black militancy and outspokeness." opined Mrs. Brown. "Mae spoke at innumerable public meetings in Ohio about her case as well as the oppression and exploitation of so-called Negroes in this country. It was this that the white authorities wanted to stop," she charged. The F B I has haunted Mrs. Brown day and night, she reported. "Before they located Mae in Cleveland and threw her in jail, one morning F B I agents came here and asked me where she was. I told them, T don't know.' " So one of them said to me, "We're going to get her if she stays on land." "This aggravated me so much that I said to them, 'Yes, you will get her. There is one question, however, I want to ask you. Where were you when they murdered Emmett Till? Were you this busy? You will get Mae because she is black. But the murderers of Emmett Till weren't black, they were white. Nobody seems to be able to find them but you will get Mae.' " "He said, T didn't come to talk (Continued on Page 4)
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(Continued from Page 3) a politics, I came to see if I could find your daughter.' " Prominently displayed in Mae Mallory's apartment is a portrait of Patrice Lumumba "The portrait belongs to Mae," her mother stated. "Lumumba was murdered purposely for what he was doing for his people in the Congo. He was a great man," she said. "I TELL YOU WHAT started me to discovering, thinking and reading a lot about our proud ancestry and African culture," she continued. "It was my daughter. Also since I have been in New York City, I have learned much from listening to the talks of Malcolm X and reading MUHAMMAD SPEAKS. "One thing I agree totally with the Muslims about is that we must separate," asserted M r s . Brown. "Separation is the only
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solution and true answer for us so-called Negroes who constitute a nation, in captivity, within a nation. It has been repeatedly proved that integration with the white man doesn't provide the answer," she said. MRS. BROWN expressed appreciation to MUHAMMAD SPEAKS for giving extensive coverage to her daughter's fight against extradition from Ohio to North Carolina and for revealing the facts in her case. "I often talk with my sister, who is a Muslim, about Mae and the plight of black people in this country, as I also do with my uncle, who has been a follower of Elijah Muhammad for the last 30 years," she revealed. "IT SEEMS TO be that the uniting of the black masses in this country, as incomplete as it is, is, nonetheless, more than it has ever been," Mrs. Brown re-
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Bag Wonder Bread In Boston Boycott R O X B U R Y , Mass.—The militant Boston Action Group, making it clear that it will not take the pressure off Wonder Bread until its demands that Negroes be given equal job opportunities, backed up its boycott with a "March for Fair Employment" through the streets here. Since the drive began March 24, Wonder Bread has hired four Negrce. is a hopeful sign that Negroes as salesmen. However,/Wonder Bread will hire the rethe B o s t o n Action Group in- maining eight workers soon and dicated its intention to continue demonstrate their good faith in the campaign until more Negro the Negro community," a BAG employees are hired. rpckesman said. "We believe the hiring of four IN FEBRUARY, the g r o u p
marked. "And I believe that it is the direct result, and I'm not just saying it because you are here, of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Father Divine was good in his way but he didn't arouse the consciousness of the black masses as Muhammad has," she said. Mrs. Brown urged MUHAMMAD SPEAKS readers to send telegrams or letters to Governor James A. Rhodes. State House, Columbus, Ohio, urging the Ohio chief executive to deny extradition of Mae Mallory to North Carolina "where there is no justice for a black woman" and to grant her asylum in Chio. SHE ALSO suggested telegrams or letters protesting the persecution of Mae Mallory be' sent to U S. Attorney General R o b e r t Kennedy. Department of Justice, CAPTAIN RAYMOND Sharrieff, Director of the Fruit of Islam Washington, D.C. and the United (left) and National Secretary John Ali, pause outside LouisiStates C o m m i s s i o n on Civil ana's State Supreme Court building where they went to obRights, Washington, D C. serve trial of Muslim Minister Troy X of Monroe, La., charged with "anarchy" following police raid upon Mosque in 1961. asked Wonder Bread to hire 12 Modernistic to the last detail, all facilities including drinking Negroes: five driver-salesmen, fountains in the "House of Justice" were segregated, reserving one long-distance truck driver, four secretaries and two plant the inferior accommodations for Negroes. workers "above the level of jan-( itor" within 30 days. devote an entire Sunday morning "We would like to see this sitBy March 18, the company had sermon to the "Wonder Bread uation favorably resolved as soon ' a ; possible," BAG said. not hired any of the 12 requested situation." by BAG, saying it already had hired eight Negroes. BAG pointed DAILY — HOME COOKED MEALS out that eight workers are "employed in the production department and lacking in the opportunity for significant advancement or the salary plus commission" PHONE CHICAGO, ILL. 6319 COTTAGE GROVE arrangement of salesmen. 643-1919 In answering the company's claim that it had an excellent past relationship with Negroes of the area, the BAG spokesman said, "The N e g r o community never knew the facts before. "The best way to insure a good M u h a m m a d ' s relationship in the future is to hire Negro workers on all levels of the operation," he added. The march here was labled "quite successful" by officials of the equal tights organization. The marchers, led by mini ters, disEvery W e d n e s d a y a n d Friday, a t 8 : 0 0 P.M. tributed more than 5.000 leaflets. Sundays a t 2:00 P.M. "The idea is simple," BAG said. "We just suggest that Negroes don't buy where they can't be hired fairly." The Boston Action Group, dedicated to the fight for equality in 6 5 4 - 5 6 E. 47th St., Chicago 53, III. KE 6-9216 the Bostcn area "by word and action." is conducting the Wonder Bread boycott in conjunction with the Roxbury Ministerial All'ar.ce and other community groups. "We already have a network of more than 150 block captains ] HIGH-BOY — $1 2.50. Colors: £ UNBORN CALF HI-BOY — O DOUBLE LIFE IMPORTED— Grey, Tan, Dk. Green, Dr. $1 5.00. Colors: Char. Black $1 5.00. Colors: Black, Char. who are responsible for distribut- ' Brown, Black, Dk. Grey, and White, or Brown and Brown, Olive Green, Grey, ing information and coordinating ' Navy. White. and White. efforts on their blocks," BAG as-j serted. In addition, some ministers
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A. Philip Randolph What are the bitter fruits of jobs by "race" and low wages? What are the side side-effects of unemployment in the Negro communities of the nation'? A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, in this'final installment of his threepart interview with Muhammad Speaks, discusses these a<nd other questions in his frank, hard-hitting analysis of the American labor scene, with emphasis on the desperate unemployment situation as it pertains to the Negro.
Take it from me. If there was 153 per cent unemployment among white workers i in the United States there ! would be chaos and confusion everywhere and marches all over the nation. But black workers don't seem to realize what is going on. M U H A M M A D SPEAKS: You spoke of the low median wage of the Negro. Does this low income, f r u s t r a t i o n , where the father Sees he is "WHITE ONLY" says sign, advising Southern Negro job-seeker not earning enough money to of the color bar in employment. Behind-the-scenes collusion take care of his family, lead between some unions and employers restricts substantial num- to alcoholism, dope addiction? bers of Negroes and denies thousands of others of a job of j R A N D O L P H : It does, exany kind. ! a'ctlv. It leads to broken fam-
the making. I couldn't make Mr. Randolph, it has been said any comment on that yet but in a recession, the black man we are going now to hold a meeting and discuss the quesilies and homes. It leads to tion of the mobilization to the youngsters in the families Washington and the demonseeking e s c a p e f r o m the stration on this vital ecoWeakness of the home into nomic issue. But the President himself the dream world of narcotics and alcohol. It leads to de- ought to know that it is not inquency and crime. These a question of what the Negro are the by-products of inade- leaders say alone but a quesquate income in the form of tion of what the black masses say. The great laboring black wages. masses, what do they say? You take t h e h o s p i t a l How do they feel about it? workers.. You h a v e hospital . Leaders come and go but workers who get about $95 the people remain. Conseevery two weeks. quently, you have got to listen I know of o n e f a m i l y to the voice of the black (mother, father and two chil- people on this question. I dren) that if they were on think they are ready to speak relief t h e y w o u l d get $33 on this serious issue. more every two weeks than MUHAMMAD S P E A K S : they receive in the wages the father gets. You know that Do you think that the Comis a problem. That is due to mon Market in Europe has a the fact that we are a low- hearing on the rapid pace of wage group, a l o w - s k i l l automation that is taking group, we are unorganized place in the Lmited States? and unconscious of our plight R A N D O L P H : The Comand impending disaster. Conmon Market in Europe is one sequently, we are in a pathetof the new demonstrations of ic condition. recognition on the part of inM U H A M M A D S P E A K S : dividual nations that no single â&#x20AC;˘ Regarding the m a r c h on nation can stand alone in the Washington, D.C., are you re- great surge of e c o n o m i c questing to s e e President change in the world. Consequently, t h e y have Kennedy ? R A N D O L P H : This is all in
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isaster Looms For Negroes Job Struggle: Randolph (Continued from Page 5) united for the purpose of abolishing what is known as tariff barriers in order that commodities will flow freely from one country to another. Now, what does that mean? That means that if your exports are lower than your imports, then you have an unfavorable balance of trade and an unfavorable balance of payments. Now, the marketability of United States products is based on the element of costs. The foundations" of the element of costs is wages—the labor costs. Therefore, vou
take the big industrialists and financiers in this country, what are they doing? They are fighting any movement on the part of the workers to increase their wages on the grounds that increasing wages makes for inflation, and with inflation the value of the dollar goes down. The working class of this country faces a tragic problem. Only less tragic than the problem black workers face. I don't see that the American labor movement understands that t h o r o u g h l y and completely. It is a serious question. MUHAMMAD S P E A K S :
Is there any effort or inclination on the part of the organized labor movement to move into two areas, which observers have called important, to organize (1) workers in the South and (2) those having so-called white collar jobs ? R A N D O L P H : Yes, Labor is attempting to move into those areas. Number one, Labor will not make a success in attempting to organize the South until they squarely meet this question of color and race. It has never done it. Number two. so far as white-collar workers are concerned, they are in the process of working on that. The teachers in New York City, for instance, for the first time have developed a union and have called a strike. You perhaps remember that? They are now negotiating with the Board of Education on a wage -cale. This is the first grotip of white-collar people that PERMANENT LAYOFFS and unemployment face Such workers in an auto assembly plant as their jobs are wiped out by tas ever gott&» that far. automation and technological change. One of the obstacles is that the white-collar worker has a b o u r g e o i s psychology. In L.A. G r o u p O p e n s Free meet the crying need of our children to learn about the Afroother words, he believes he is Negro History Study American's tremendous contribua part of management and L O S A N G E L E S — The tions to American and world that he has no interest or reAfro-Ameri ram Cultural Cen- progress." lation to and no cause to have ter Committee has inaugu- - Because "it is the community's cooperation with the common rated free classes in Negro responsibility" to help fill this ordinary working man. history study for children on vcid in the education cf Negro Consequently, you have as j Saturday afternoons, accord- children. Greenwood ;aid, the much discrimination between i ing to Frank G. Greenwood, AACCC has cpcred its Afro-Amerthe white collar worker and chairman. The organization previously bethe blue collar worker almost He pointed o, gan a free course in salesmanas vou have between white a.-de one week" the ship "for the unemployed and the and black workers. We are Negro history "dcesn't begi unskiled." not on the road to solving that. I can tell you—not yet! MUHAMMAD S P E A K S : Thank you, Mr. Randolph. RANDOLPH: It was a pleasure to talk with you and •Lank vou for coming- in. MICKEY'S & BEULAH'S
A SMALL PERCENTAGE of Negroes hold jobs in such departments as personnel records in large corporations. These are workers in Chrysler Corporation's central employment and employee services department.
R o w in the North] WATCH REPAIR RING SIZING ts major Northern industrial; states, the practice of dealing out: a_ WEDDING BEAUTIFUL "capital punishment," mainly to. RINGS WATCH BANDS / _ | impoverished Negroes, closely: PARK MANOR parallels the practice in the South. SALES A APPUANCE (0. I . E . : In Illinois. 1963 found 6 368 E. 71 st St., Chicago, III. cut ot 7 Death Row inmates to bej 1 TR 4-3800 Negroes.
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N E W Y O R K — T h e portentous move of "foreign-trained" African leaders home to still-unliberated areas continues despite threats of death and jail cells. An estimated 250 African leaders from the white supremacy dominated territories of Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, South and South West Africa are expected to return by June of 1963 to direct militant struggles for liberation, underground committee leaders here have reported. ()ne such homeward hound Schinnding. said Dr. Kerina. iii Pennsylvania, at the School "liberating angel" will he Dr. he was told that if he arrived for Social Research, and BanM Ixlurumba Kerina of South "anywhere in South Africa or dung university, where he reWest Africa. South West Africa." he would ceived his doctorate in 1962. SO S H O C K E D were of- he arrested immediately and HIS DETERMINATION ficials of South Africa over held on criminal charges. to return home at this time is news of his return that leadDr. Kerina is small physi- based oh his desire to help in ers of that X*zi*Tike governcally, standing five feet, five the organization of a >ingle. ment privately phoned Dr. inches, weighing about 199 non-tribal, nationalistic polit- MAP OP AFRICA in which arrows indicate countries to which Kerina. and apprised hi hi of pounds, but his will and de- ical g"<»up within South West "foreign-trained African leaders will return to lead the struggle the fate awaiting him. for emancipation and freedom." termination are monumental. Africa. "I've be€t\ threatened over "We arc virtually prisoners the phone and told not to return," said Dr. K e r i n a . in our own land." said Dr. "They've also threatened my Kerina. "Am African who wife. But permit or not, I've v res to speak of freedom is stated I will return to the exiled to the far north. Those of us who have been out of ; c country generally are kept apart from our less for-" 'X'.'ile 1 li'ot he . " A M E R I C A N slum dwell ings would seem like palaces compared to the dwellings mv people are forced to live T'.aeh family has some kmd of shelter hut it is sur'itnded bv either a wall. ' arhed w ire or both — with oidv one exit. The entire eom-
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home of my fathers — and my wife has courageously added her voice to mine." Dr. Kerina has spent the last several years building international o p p o s i t i o n to South Africa's occupation and administration of South West A f r i c a bv petitioning the United Nations. H E H A S been refused a reentrv permit by his country's imperialist ruler. Application bv his American wife and their three children has been turned down. And he has received verbal threats from the South African government's vice consul in New York. Yon Schinnding. In the first telephone call from Vice Consul Von Schinnding, Dr. Kerina said the South African government official warned him that if his wife and children arrive in South Africa or South West Africa without permission, they would be held by South African authorities at the port of entry. In the second .-nil from Vnn
poiLu.u. is .sttriottnueu nv machine guns. We are osuly permitted out during working hours — under threat of the ,di or imprisonment. "Children are wrested from their parents when they reach the age of 16," he said. "These chFdren are herded into barracks with children their own age so the government can continue to attempt to train them docility," he said, adding that South West Africans are not permitted to vote. Chairman of the South W est Africa Peoples Organization, Dr. Kerina studied at all-Negro Lincoln university
SOUTH WEST AFRICAN nationalist Dr. Mburumba Kerina (2nd from left) shown during a visit to Muhammad's University of Islam in Chicago, says he will return to his native land despite threats from the South African
government. With him are (from left) Mrs. Kerina, Dr. Grace Allelo of Nigeria, and Sister Lottie Muhammad, daughter of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
fly because of my contacts with sion under a Federal court order tor of student work at Clemson Mr. Harvey B. Gantt." the pas-j —was "treated as a subversive College, but the post is a church tor declared. plot to integrate the college" by assignment and is not under the He said the 1962 incident of giv- i members of the administration. control or supervision of the colC o s t H i m Joh ing direction to Gantt—who was j Fteverend Webster also is direc- lege. C L E M S O N , S. C. — Be- turned clown but later won admiscause he directed Harvey B. Gantt, the only Negro student at Clemson College, and another Negro to the office of school's registrar w h e n he! Mimeographing, Letter Writing, Typing, first tried to enroll, the pasPhoto-Copying and Public Relations LO 2 - 9 6 0 6 MILWAUKEE, WIS. tor of the First B a p t i s t Church was fired. MUHAMMAD SPEAKS This "gesture of Chr'stian courtesy, at the request of the South BUSINESS BUREAU Carolina Council on Human Hela512 W. CENTER ST. MILWAUKEE WES. t'ons," cost him his job. the Rev. 153 LENOX AVENUE Charles Webster. 29, charged, "Up to the Minute Haircuts By Experts" NEW YORK, N. Y. after a meeting of the church's AC 2-6523 - 23 ONLY $ 1 . 5 0 — FRI. & SAT. $ 1 . 7 5 governing body. PHONE FRANKLIN 2-8490 I was asked to resign primar
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Once again a supposedly t i a ! s are too ignorant to be their No! Only history can decide that, distinguished m e m b e r o f | - o w nmasters simply because one; We, the Africans, leave the America's governing body has sees them through eyes shadedi final judgment to the ages, lens of hate and prejudice? ] —Rev. Peter E . A. Addo. come out bluntly to tell the with world what he thinks of men of color. He has thus brought disgrace not only to himself, his state, but to his race. Not only is it hard to believe senseless and stupid outbursts coming f r o m such quarters, it is heartbreaking to think it comes from a man whose presence among the Africans he so brutally attacked was paid for by American tax payers. BUT. THEN, where else can one hear and come across such g r o s s misinformation on the African people? The a n s w e r would be found a m o n g uninformed Americans like the Louisiana s e n a t o r > Allen J . E l lender). Comparing his comments with t h o s e of the highly - esteemed Ralph McGill, one is at once aware of Mr. McGill's objective knowledge of the African personality and his maturity of understanding. To the Southern senator, the average African is not capable of making decisions for himself. It seems that he must call on people like the senator from Louisiana to do his t h i n k i n g for him — despite the fact that the African has been thinking f o r himself long before the first European visited Africa's shores. Can one judge that a people
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Learn To Be Free 'Marshall (Continued from Page 11 goes by here in America that a so-called Xegro is not beat and killed by these great free murderers of the black people and deceivers of the world. The dragon's religion is called Christianity — this religion Allah and His prophets have rejected — and it has deceived the so-called Negroes and many hundreds of thousands of black people in Asia and Africa. The b l a c k people must know that organized Christianity is Divinely rejected. Allah is not the Author of Christianity, and its basic principles of belief are contrary and false. (As Allah has taught me) :
tion a people un-alike. the white race. -Mr. Yakuh was the founder of un-alike attracts and alike repels. He made them, by nature, 100 per cent enemies to the Black Nation. (As Allah has taught me) Mr. Yakuh endowed them with a su-
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preme knowledge of evil and No. 1. Allah (God) is the good. (They are the symOne God and not three. bolical ''tree of good and evil," No. 2. Allah has no need for Gen. 2:9) and how to make a son. He is Independent of evil look attractive and righteousness to look unattrachelp—self-sufficient. tive. A L L A H H A S never given a T H E Y (the white race) are prophet's or son's life for the sins of the world of white great scientists at tricking the mankind. For this race of black people. T h e y were people were created to be de- created by nature liars and stroyed after their wicked murderers. ( As Allah taught rule. (As Allah has taught me) They are the first liars and human murderers since me). the creation of our earth and The only people to be for- have sought every evil mean given for their sins are the to exterminate us from our so-called Negroes. They are earth without exterminating the real members of the Orig- themselves. inator of the heavens and Their entire rule over the earth who were lost from their people and had to be Black Nation is a rule of found. (As Allah has taught death. They bring suffering and death upon MS with a me). smile ! Their show of friendThey (so-called Negroes) ship with you is only false. are the ones who were cap- Both Bible and Holy Qur-an tured by the people of sin constantly warn us against (the Caucasian race) and taking them for friends. Hismade mentally dead to the tory shows that all black knowledge of self and kind, people who took them for and were deprived of the friends learned later that they knowledge of God and God's had been deceived. prophets and the Word of Our fathers and mothers God (the Scriptures) brought by the Prophets for right learned their lesson 6,000 guidance for the human fam- years ago that this human ily while living under the rule serpent, the devil and satan of the devils (Caucasian race). (The head of the serpent's religion is referred to as the T O D A Y , they suspect their "dragon." Rev. 13:2; 16-13) end is near and are red with deceives and will drag you anger. They are full of evil clown to disgrace and shame and indecent tricks to play on in this life and hell fire is the the Black Nation and espe- end. cially the American so-called Our Redeemer comes in the Negroes who have been swal- prepared man. In Arabic, the lowed by them and must he Great Mahdi—God in Person. made to vomit them up. There In English, the "Messiah" or is no mercy or good in them. Son of Man. Some say the Do not lie deceived by think- "second coming of Jesus" being there is mercy or good in cause the desire of Jesus of them. They are absolutely 2.000 years ago will he carried h e a r t l e s s . (As Allah has out by the Mahdi (God in taught me). Person); that is. destroying How Allah (God) is making the enemies of Allah and setmanifest the truth of just who ting a peaceful government this great deceiver is! The on earth for the righteous devil, and satan is none other (the original Black Nation) than the European white race that will live forever. whom Allah's poor people, the N e x t W e e k : "Our AcLost-found members of the cusers." great Asiatic Black Nation, H U R R Y AND J O I N ONTO the original people of the Y O U R O W N k i n d : t h i u earth, the first and the last T I M E O F T H I S W O R L D I S | have been deceived. AT HAND! The black people are the W R I T E T O : AI U H A Mtrue owners of the heavens MAD'S M O S Q U E NO. 2. 5.335 and the earth. One of our South Greenwood Avenue. scientists. Mr. Yakuh, who Chicago 15. Illinois. wanted to try evil at ruling, Elijah Muhammad. grafted from the Black NaMessenger of Allah
Plan' for Negroes? LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A sort of ".Marshall Plan" for the Negro population in this country was visualized last week by an official of the N a t i o n a l Urban League. He is Guichard Parris, New York, the league's director of public relations. He was here completing plans for the national Urban League conference in Louisville in August, 1964. The Negro can become a productive citizen, with help, or he can become an ever - increasing burden on welfare rolls, Parris said. "THE TIME has come," he continued, "for a massive crash program to do for the Negro population in this nation what has been done for peoples of other countries. If we can do it for other nations, we can do it for our own people." Despite the progress made by the Negro, the gap between his economic position and that of the white is increasing rather than decreasing, Parris declared. "What disturbs us in the league is this frightful widening of the economic gap," he added. Consulting figures, he said the average annual income for a Negro family today is 53,233 compared with 55,835 for the white family, a gap of 45 per cent. A few years ago the gap was 43 per cent.
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T H I S B O O K I S a good introduction to the subject Africa, particularly for people who have no prior knowledge of this continent and its people. The author takes an entirely.... new approach to this subject; instead of writing a history o P the European occupation of Africa (that most people think of as African history), he attempts to begin at the beginning. In doing this, he gives a good indication of Africa's age and potential richness. He also shows that Africans did not wait in darkness for Europeans to bring the light. T o the best of my knowledge, Mr. Williams is the first writer to make use of the researches of Dr. L . S. B . Leakey and the results of his search in Africa for traces and clues of the earliest man. According to the author's account: "For many years, anthropologists had believed that East Africa held the remnants of the oldest prehistoric man. But the years of scrabbling, digging and searching that had been fruitless until the momentous day in July, 1959 when jubilant scientist returned to their uncomfortable camp and announced that Zinjanthropus had been found and another door to the past had been opened . . . Zinjanthropus lived among wild sheep, pigs and baboons all of which were much larger than now. Nine million seven hundred fifty thousand fascinating years passed since then and much of Africa has been explored, settled and exploited. Parts of it. however, remain unknown." After giving the reader a capsule history of Africa's beginning, the author unfolds the vast panorama that is Africa : the great Egyptian dynasties, the Greeks and Romans, the Ottoman and Arab empires, the great West African empires, the early Portuguese and Dutch explorers, the existing cultures found by the explorers, the slave trade, the 19th century explorers such as Livingstone and Stanley, and the resultant European expansion in Africa. The section of the book that deals with the coming of the Europeans to Africa has many pictures of European empire builders and not enough pictures of the African warrior nationalists who resisted them. The story of why and how 1 4 R a t i f y Poll T a x the Europeans came to Africa needs to be retold with more attention given to the thought and action of the Africans Ban; 2 4 More t o G o during this important period in their history. BISMARCK, N. D.—Again iiiIn spite of these omissions, "Africa: Her History, Lands America attempts to abolish the j infamous and discriminatory poll and People," is a book that is informative and rewarding. tax, a practice long abandoned by most of the world, has moved past the planning stage. The North Dakota legislature ratified the proposed U n i t e d ! States constitutional amendment to prohibit states from denying federal voting rights on the basis j P R E S I D E N T D A V I D D A A - certain essential reservations. of a poll tax. K O , Centrafrican Republic : There must be a b s o l u t e equality among all the inde"We must aid by all means pendent states, without any the remaining colonial ter- one of them trying to exert FREEDOM, ritories in Africa to throw off its leadership over the others. the colonial yoke. We must Nothing must be neglected in JUSTICE and not hesitate to shake up and this immense and exalting disarm with brutality, but task, e v e n at the r i s k of EQUALITY without shedding blood, the wounding someones pride." last colonialists who stubWE MUST HAVE It o r n 1 y maintain their old P R E S I D E N T K W A M E OR ELSE ways instead of cooperating N K R U M A H , Ghana: with African leaders. . . ." Would you like remom'og a "We are all interested in permanent slave or being a the promotion of world peace MR. P E T E R M B I Y U K O I N permanent member of a soup line? Are you with us to get A N G E , Secretary. Pan Afri- and we must all strive hard can Movement for Eastern, to secure it. Without peace, Freedom, Justice and Equality for the So-Called Negroes? Central and Southern Africa we in A f r i c a cannot make progress in our development (PAFMECSA). PLEASE SEND US YOUR and future schemes for prog"Africa's political chapter ress . . . " is coming to an end, and now NAME it is the economic chapter A L H A J I S I R A B U K A B A R where leaders of all races T A F A W A B A L E W A , Prime ADDRESS must hand their energies to Minister, Federation of N i building countries rather than geria: THy Zone . . . . State agitation. . . ." "If we work on a brotherly KA.FnrTtrnaJ's M o s q u e N o . 2 basis, we shall have better MR. A L B E R T S Y L L A , For5 3 3 5 S. S r e e - . w o o J A v p - i u e C h V . i q o K . IHmois eign Minister. Madagascar: understanding, because no unity is g r e a t e r than the Or "Madagascar is for the I countries regarding one an4847 S. IVondlawn Avenue great united Africa, but with j other as brothers . . . "
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G r i m History O f G r e e n w o o d , Miss. (Special to Muhammad Speaks) G R E E N W O O D , Miss.—Imbedded in the r e c o r d of America—North and South— is the bloody story of persistent and courageous efforts of Negroes to regain their right to the elemental demands of human beings. Thus; between 1807 and 1864. there were no less and probably more than 14' slave revolts in the State of Mississippi in which Negroes used force in attempts to break the chains of oppression and degredation. AND T H U S it is still in Mississippi. 100 years after a Civil War and an Emancipation Proclamation which supposedly freed black America. But the 20th Century revolt of Negroes here in Greenwood is a non-violent one by their own design. Here, after 100 years of "freedom," N e g r o e s , who comprise more than half of this city's population of 20,436 Americans, are simply trying to register to vote—to secure a right that has been denied them for 400 years and which CHILDREN O F G R E E N W O O D : Their Forebearers Revolted against Slave Rule. Now, 100 years a f t e r the others take for granted. Emancipation Proclamation, their parents are in non-violent revolt against a semi-slave system t h a t denies Though Negroes here are them the r i g h t t o v o t e and live as free American citizens. using non-violent tactics in their attempts to register, the voting-age Negroes have registration w o r k e r s have Alabama; S o u t h Carolina, they have been met head-on been allowed to register. faced shootings and near Negroes continue to move inLa Santo by the opposition of some This count}' in West Mis- lynchings. Last summer two exorably forward in a masA LANOLIN RICH white officials who do not sissippi has been charged with g i r l s were shot by night sive attack against the entire HAIR CONDITIONER hesitate to employ violence, coldly dropping 20,000 Ne- riders. structure of discrimination NOW ON SALE AT terror and persecution. Temple No. 2 Four SNCC field secretaries and oppression. groes from the U.S. DepartGROCERY STORE They brave the violence IN L e F L O R E County, ment of Agriculture's sur- n a r r o w 1 y missed being 614 EAST 71st STREET where G r e e n w o o d is the plus commodities program lynched recently when they and the terror in their strugjumped from a second-story gle for the ballot because the County Seat and where long- because they wanted to vote. SEE everything on '< staple cotton is the basic comStudent Non-violence C o - window to escape a mob of right to vote is one of the white men carrying pipes, keys to the collapse of segreW TELEVISION modity, only nine per cent of ordinating Committee voter ropes and chains. in thrilling ' gation. J I M M Y T R A V I S , 20-yearold worker, was shot twice by three white men who fired into the car he was driving. A week later, four vote workers were cut by flying glass after white men shot into their car. But here, as in Georgia,
And meanwhile, the mounting assault against the semislave status of the Negro appears headed for a climax— a climax which some predict will force the intervention of Federal troops if some semblance of democracy is to be achieved.
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Must Have By C h a r l e s P. H o w a r d , Sr. Muhammad Speaks U N and Foreign Correspondent ( Third in a series uii I nited Nations Agencies) U N I T E D N A T I O N S , N . Y . ( H N S ) — P o v e r t y is the r o a d to h u n g e r a n d h u n g e r is the d i s e a s e of m i l l i o n s . I n a w o r l d w i t h the k n o w l e d g e a n d p o w e r to p r o d u c e e n o u g h h e a l t h f u l f o o d for m o r e t h a n t w i c e the e a r t h ' s p o p u l a t i o n , m o r e t h a n h a l f of the p e o p l e on e a r t h a r e v i c t i m s of d e s p e r a t e p o v e r t y a n d s t a r v a t i o n . But there is another hunger—a disease-carrying "hidden hunger." which gnaws at the bodies of the undernourished 'from the time thev are born until they die. This is the hunger of ina d e q u a t e nutrition, which leaves the h e a l t h of the chronically underfed open on all sides to attack from disease and death. M A N Y D I S E A S E S are direct results of a lack of particular food elements. Among them arc scurvy, pelegra and beri-beri. Other diseases such as measles, pneumonia and tuberculosis find little resistance among those who are undernourished. For every child who dies in the United States of malnutrition and its accompanying afflictions. 300 die in certain underdeveloped countries. In many of those countries the every-day meals of the people, young and old, are insufficient by health standards. M I L L I O N S of children go without milk after they have been weaned and child mortality between the ages of one and five is often 15 times higher than in places where the food-health level is adequate. Thus malnutrition, the "bidden hunger." is recognized as a major factor in low health levels among a great part of the world's population. The pathetic paradox of a world capable of producing enormous amounts of food is that the greatest increase in food production is in those countries where it is needed the most. A LABORATORY TECHNICIAN examines blood slides brought Another factor is that in
ADEQUATE FOOD is one of the most urgent needs in Africa. This three-year-old boy was suffering from malnutrition when brought to Scientific Research Institute for Central Africa in Lwiro, the Congo. If he receives the right food, he will be «s healthy lad again in about three months.
AN AFRICAN midwife-nurse teaches young mothers basic post-natal care at the Butere clinic in Kenya. The UN agency
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World Health Organization ot the United Nations has •cusetl its attention. focusei As part of its program, and to capture the attention of the world, this organization marked Sunday, April 7, 1963, as World Health Day, observing the 15th anniversary of the constitution of the World Health Organization. The World H e a l t h Day
theme this year was "Hunger; Disease of Millions." The observance s u p p o r t e d the "Freedom From H u n g e r" campaign of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. F O O D O U T P U T may be SO high in some countries that local surpluses accumulate. But these surpluses do not move into international
trade c b i e f I y because the countries needing more food do not have the money to buy them. In Japan, the yield per hectare (about 2l/2 acres) of arable land is approximate!} three to four times the yield per hectare in India ; Europe obtains four times as much meat and milk per head of cattle as are obtained in Latin America and the Near East, seven times as much as in Africa and ten times as much as the F a r East.
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Lord Boyd-Orr. f a m o u s British Food E x p e r t , has written : "To raise the diet of all mankind to the level needed for health would require a threefold increase in the food supply, the increase being mainly in the more expensive foods. "Vast quantities of agricultural equipment, fertilizers, facilities for s t o r a g e and transport of food are needed. Water-control projects must be developed to produce electricity and water for irrigation. "Enough of the right kind of food is necessary for health and a healthy population is essential if food production is to reach the levels needed properly to nourish the human race." This is no Utopian ideal. "To the contrary, on its practical realization depends the AM IMSFCT COLLECTOR, workinl
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MOBILE GROUPS called "Sleep Brigades" examine African youths for traces of dread sleeping sickness.
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Is Man's Best Friend A Carrier of Cancer? WASHINGTON — The family dog long has been touted as man's "best friend," but a government researcher says "Fido" may be guilty of spreading the dreaded cancer disease. Dr. Michael B. Shimkin of the National Cancer Institute near Washington said evidence points to viruses as causes of some types of human cancer—and family pets and other animals have cancers and, presumably, could transmit them by way of viruses, to man, he suggested. "Dogs are the animals with which many Americans have the closest contact," Dr. Shimkin wrote in a government publication, "and, in our culture, they seem to be considered as threeyear-old children with fur. Until now, the possible neoplastic (tumor-producing) significance of contact with dogs has not been
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M u s l i m s , Rockefeller, Shelters By JOSEPH WALKER A L B A N Y , N . Y.—State Senator James L . Watson ( Democrat I of the 2 1st District, which encompasses Central Harlem, is one of six Negroes in the legislature of New York State. H e has been in the state senate for nine tears, which is his first elective office. The other Negro representatives are colleagues Ivan Warner in the -mate and Assemblymen iicrtram L . Baker. I.lord E . I)ickens, Thomas R. Jones and Mark T . Southall, all from New York City. Sen. Watson has lived in Harlem all of his life. "I am not trying to run a v. ay from my people and flee to the suburbs." he told MUHAMMAD SPEAKS in an exclusive interview here. He is a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School and attended New York University a n d Brooklyn Law School. He served for three and a half years in the U.S. Army with the 92nd Infantry Division, fought in Italy where he was wounded three times and decorated on several occasions for heroic combat missions. SEN. WATSON is married and has three children His late father. James S. Watson, was the first Negro judge in New York State. On February 4 Sen. Watson introduced a bill in the senate to provide equality of religious freedom and lights to all faiths, including the followers of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in New York State's penal and correctional institutions. "There is no evidence that has been introduced to me to indicate that the Muslim faith is a bad or detrimental faith." Watson said. "ON THE contrary, from all that I have been able to determine, have read and seen, tne amount of recidivism among inmates who are converted to the Muslim faith is far less than the amount of recidivism of other faiths." he remarked. Following are other questions by MUHAMMAD SPEAKS a n d answers by Sen. Watson: QUESTION: At the r e c e n t Muslim Convention in Chicago. Messenger Elijah Muhammad issued a message proclaiming that hereafter the Muslim movement in the United States would enter the political arena on the side of candidates with programs designed to alleviate the deplorable c o n d i t i o n s under which Negroes are forced to live. What is your reaction to Mr. Muhammad's proclamation? ANSWER: I am very happy to hear that the Muslims will now. for the first time, begin to participate in our body politic by making their influence felt at the polls. You can stand outside the door and holler and say what is wrong, but if you are unable to
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R e v i e w e d b y J O H N HENRIK CLARKE The now flourishing literary talent of James Baldwin had no easy birth, and he did not emerge over night, as some of his new discoverers would have you believe. F o r years this talent was in incubation in the ghetto of H a r l e m , before he went to Europe nearly a decade ago in an attempt to discover the United States and how he and his people relate to it. "This book. "The Fire Next about this alienation. Time." is a continuation of Two essays, one long and his search for place and defi- one short, make up the book. nition. The short essay, "My DunThe Negro's quasi freedom geon Shook," originally apis af**v. m o r e humiliating I peared in the Progressive than slavery and more diffi-1 magazine. The long essay, cult to fight because it gives "Down at the Cross," orig the Negro the illusion, whtle inally appeared in the New denying him the fact, of free Yorker under the title, "Let dom. ter from a Region in My Thus the Negro continues Mind," and the issue in which his alien status in a country it came out is now a colwhere his people have lived lector's item. for more than 300 years. "The Fire Next Time." like most T H E F I R S T essay, subof Baldwin's writings, is titled "Letter to My Nephew
on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation." is Baldwin's advice to a young relative entering the area of racial conflict on the anniversary of the proclamation that is supposed to have set hi.» people free. The thrust of the author's eloquent anger is deep. "This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what 1 mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. . ^ Baldwin's evaluation of the Black Muslims and their leader. Elijah Muhammad, tells us more about the author than about his subject. As a guest in the home of Muhammad, he seems to have vacillated between personal attraction and ideological estrangement.
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^Muslim Massacre' Quits College Post
W A L T H A M , Mass.—A white woman who was among the signers of a letter protesting the brutal police massacre of Muslims in Los Angeles last April is resigning, "under The findings are based on reports of the Federal harassment," from Brandeis university here. Trade Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Dr. Kathleen Gough Aberle, Administration for January and February, 1963. assistant professor of an- condemnation any more than we thropology, submitted her res- can, for example, condemn the ignation to the Dean of Fac- Black Muslims for saying that HELPFUL H I N T S T O H O U S E W I V E S : ulty, charging her academic they intend to defend themselves against White oppression. The Pills that bring "higher pain relief" are no doubt wonand political freedom had beam is i n our eye and only the derful to have but B A Y E R Aspirin may not be the answer. been threatened. mote in theirs . . . " The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sterling Her husband. D r . David F . Called to the office of Brandeis Drug Company of New York and its advertising agency with Aberle, chairman of the Brandeis President, D r . Abram L . Sachar, falr.e claims in advertising referring to a comparative study department of anthropology, has eight days after her speech, D r . of its B A Y E R Aspirin and four other analgesics. also submitted his resignation. Aberle was told by the president Challenging the "higher pain relief score," claimed for [Both resignations become effective that her address had been delivB A Y E R Aspirin, F T C charged that in reality the clinical | at the end of the current aca- red in a "dangerous, reckless
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long braids, the woman ot left and her companions are actually awaiting the arrival of President Bourguiba—perhaps to give him the message, under the restraining hands of male guard.
TUNISIAN WOMEN such as these in front of the government palace in Tunis, are now demanding that Tunisian men "stay home" and marry fewer foreign women and more Tunisian women. With scowling visage and
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A GOVERNMENT official said that since Mad. Haddad is a member of Tunisia's National Assembly, she could make a proposal on the matter in Parliament. He refused to predict what, if anything, would come of such a proposal.
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As Airlines Pilots W A S H I N G T O N — I t ' s easier f o r a Negro flyer t o take a rocket trip t o t h e m o o n t h a n i t is t o g e t a j o b a s a c o m m e r c i a l a i r l i n e p i l o t . W h i l e t h e m u c h - p u b l i c i z e d c a s e o f C a p t . E d w a r d J . D w i g h t , first Negro named as a n astronaut-trainee w a s being extolled in t h e n a tion's mass news m e d i a , t h e story o f a n o t h e r Negro pilot, M a r i o n D. G r e e n , w a s b e i n g i g n o r e d . Perhaps rio one is m o r e when he worked in a dairy. [ G r e e n argued before the U S . a w a r e o f t h i s space-age p a r a AT ALMOST the same t i m e High Court for a reversal of a dox than t h e 3 3 - y e a r - o l d Green's case was reaching the ; Colorado Supreme court ruling Green, h i m s e l f a f o r m e r A i r U.S. Supreme Court, Dwight was : that Continental A i r l i n e s was F o r c e c a p t a i n , w ho has heen preparing to begin training for • within its rights in refusing to w a g i n g an unsuccessful legal I flights in outer space. ; hire Green after he passed prefight since 1957 t o get an a i r - Capt. Dwight, 29, first Negro to ; liminary tests. be named as an astronaut-trainee ine p i l o t A j o b . G r e e n , w ho w.as i n t h e same for the Manned Space Program cadet class as A s t r o n a u t V i r - of the National Aeronautical and : Space Administration, said after g i l G r i s s o m at R a n d o l p h Field, j he was notified of his selection has c h a r g e d he has heen r e - that he "was ready to leave for 3 1 1 W . 1 2 0 t h S T . , N . Y . C . fused a j o l ) solelv because o f ; outer space right now-" his race. Dwight has joined other astroAll Types Expert Mechanical Repairs He says he has applied to 600i naut trainees for a seven-month companies but has gotten only i course at the Aerospace Research 1 Used Cars Sold at Wholesale Prices one piloting job, with the Michi- Pilots school in Edwards A i r ;Porce Base. Cal.. beginning June gan Highway patrol. Green asserted that after leaving that post : 17. After that he may be wingEasy Payment Plan Open 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. in Oct. 1960, he has been unem- . ing his way to the moon, CALL M O 3-0228 ployed except for a few months j M E A N W H I L E , attorneys f o r
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Asks Congress to Restore Dead Traitor s 'Hero Halo' W A S H I N G T O N — While and Benedict Arnold, also civil rights bills get a fast stri|>ped of their citizenship and unceremonious burial in status. subcommittees on Capitol Hill j and millions of unemployed Booth, an actor, assassincitizens face a hopeless fu- ated President A b r a h a m ture, a Southern Congress- Lincoln, and A r n o l d gave man introduced a bill to re- away American secrets to the store citizenship to a longBritish during the War of dead, full-blown traitor who fought against his country in 1ndependence. behalf of white supremacists.
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THE AMISTAD SOCIETY'S executive committee, shown at a recent Chicago meeting, is composed of four high school history teachers, a former secondary school instructor and several college history majors. In the front row (left to right) are B. Young, history teacher, Thornton High School; Sterling Stuckey, history teacher, Wendell Phillips High school; Mrs. Cornelia Johnson, John Bracey, history major, Roosevelt University;
Mary Joanes, history major, Chicago Teachers College, and Owen Lawson, history major, Roosevelt University. Back row (left to right) are Bennett Johnson, supervisor, Illinois State Employment Service, and former public high school physics teacher; Thomas Higginbotham, English and history teacher, Wendell Phillips High School, and Don Sykes, history teacher, Wendell Phillips High School.
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The Negro massacre of 1908 in Springfield. 111., home of Abraham Lincoln, gave impetus to the founding of the NAACP.
Quillen, in giving his "reason* for the move, said (with a straight face) he felt that \ since Winston Churchill, former British Prime .Minister and World War I I leader, has been voted American citizenship by Congress, he could not see why Lee should not be accorded the same right. Observers, while failing to grasp Ouillen's analog}, did wonder about other traitors such as John Wilkes Booth
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BY RUSSELL BURNS ture contributed by members of A new Negro history, research and action organization,, the committee.' inspired by the late author of "Trumbull Park," "frank Lon- j i t also will make available the don Brown, and named for a slave ship, was formed recently results of our sessions and projin Chicago. ects with youth and adult groups"
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to teachers, social workers and there can be no meaningful his- community leaders. tory of this country and. indeed, The new group recently dedino healthy inter-personal relation- cated a s p e c i a l program to i ships as long as achievements of Brown, who, in addition to being ! one-tenth of our population are an author, also was a trade un- \ ignored and maligned." ionist. university professor a n d THE AMISTAD SOCIETY plans j integration leadei to "make available to scholarly The Amistad Society holds bijournals, newspaper^ and other monthly sessions on Negro hisa former teacher and several publications papers on various j tory at Chicago's South Parkway college history majors — is . aspects of Negro history and cul- YWCA.
"A committee on Xegro culture and history," The Amistad Society's primary purpose is searching out and disseminating facts on Xegro history. ' • The society, organized by a group of scholars — four high school history teachers.
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A National Holiday For A Negro Hero? A 11 American holidays, like the song about Christmas, are "white." And this despite the presence of 20,000.000 black Americans and their incredible contributions which have immeasurably enriched and advanced the nation. But now a major Xegro business firm is making a move to secure enactment of a national holiday in honor of one federally-neglected American patriot. T H E C O M P A N Y : Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company.
PAINTING DEPICTING Crispus Attucks leading charge against British soldiers in Boston Commons is viewed by (from left) Samuel B. Stratton, lecturer on Negro History at the University of Chicago; George S. Harris, president, Chicago Metropolitan Mutual As-
surance company; Alton D a v i s , director, American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, and Lerone Bennett, author of "Before the Mayflower," a book on the Negro in history.
CRISPUS ATTUCK S name and those of four other patriots are inscribed on this monument ir Boston, where "the foundation of A m e r i c a n Independence was laid" on March 5, 1770. The 193rd Anniversary of the
| that cross to the victory of heroism of Attucks, sponsored by (glorious martvrdom." Adams his company, attracted prominent civic, educational and business |said. "'The world has heard of him and more, the English -]>eaking world will never for; get the noble, daring and ex! disable rashness of Attacks in the Holy cause of Liberty," the President declared. However, if they did not forget it, they soon buried it. But if the national campaign led by Metropolitan's president George S. Harris is successful, Adams' words may yet be fulfilled.
George S. Harris T H E CANDIDATE: the intrepid C r i s p u s Attucks. acknowledged as the first man to die fighting for the independence of the .American people during the Boston Massacre, some five years before the battle of Lexington. Petitions will go to President Kennedy asking that he proclaim a national holiday in honor of Attucks. Metropolitan has already established the date of March 5, the day Attucks died,.as an official holiday for its employees, and is encouraging other firms to do the same. A T T U C K S . omitted from most U.S. history hooks, led a group of white sailors against a squadron of Britisli troops in Boston Commons in 1770. with the avowed objective of driving them out of the city. An escaped slave, he was then a sailor on a whaling ship. Par from "accidentally" attacking the British he had been long regarded as an "inflammatory agitator" who associated with such "subversives" as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams along the Boston docks. SO D E E P was the shock and indignation over the Bos-
leaders and is regarded as the most formidable attempt to secure a national holiday named for a Negro. Harris pointed out that the drive for a petition to President Kennedy is not directed towards a "segregated holiday." He explained that Crispus Attucks and the four white colonists "died for all Americans and they deserve to be honored by all Americans." " A t the same t i m e , " Harris added. "Americans should be proud to announce to the world that a Negro, an ex-slave, was. the first to die for freedom."
VISIT A COBBLESTONE STAR on a Boston street indicates the spot where Crispus Attucks, a Negro, became the first American to give his life for independence. Minister Louis X of Boston points to the star. ton Massacre that it set the tion of American independclimate for all-out revolt. ence was laid." There's a monument erect- I But Adams said much more ed to honor the catalystic j than that. He characterized hero standing in Boston Com- Attucks as actually "bearing mons with an inscription from the cross" for American indeDaniel Webster which says: pendence and compared him "From that moment, we with the black man, Simon of may date the severance of the | Siree whom the Christians say bore the cross for Christ. British Empire." And a quotation from John j "When the colonists were Adams, second President of j struggling w e a r i 1 y under the United States: their cross of woe, a Xegro "On that night the founda- came to the front and bore
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Al Hibbler In Ala. B I R M I N G H A M . Ala.—The appearance of Negro entertainers in the front ranks of civil rights demonstrators is expected to i n still new vigor and vitality into the South-wide campaign to batter down racial barriers. Noted blind singer, A l Hibbler, who took part in peaceful demon-
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BLIND SINGER Al Hibbler (center) is among entertainers adding additional drive to Negroes' push for freedom in the South. Store mannequin (rear) seems to throw up her hands in consternation at Negroes' struggle for equality under the law.
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ATLANTA—Death row in the deep South may soon be reserved for Negro tenants only. A 1963 survey of those under death sentence in the prisons of seven Southern states reveals an almost total absence of w h i t e prisoners. Thus, though i t has never been the most "integrated" aspect of Southern justice—the death penalty continues to be confined to non-whites and Negro teenagers the most prominent tenants. YOUNGEST known death rowtenant in the South at present is 17-year-old Preston Cobb i sentenced to death when he was 16' who now sits i n the shadow of the electric chair in the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville. If the sentence is carried out and Cobb is "electrocuted until he is dead" in the words of Lynchburg, Va., Judge O. Raymond Cundiff when he sentenced Thomas Wansley. 18. for the 'rape' of a white woman who could not identify h i m ) he w i l l be the fourth known Negro his age or younger officially put to death by the State of Georgia.
No white youth of that age has A l l of them are Negroes. But even as the fight for Cobb years. ever been executed in the history "The Cobb case has attracted But the new bill, which is a-! goes on, with its w o r l d wide of this "cultural center" of the the attention of people all over waiting the Governor's signature, i echoes and implications, death South. the world," said Atty. Donald L . Iis meticulously worded so that i t jrow in the Deep South continues INTERNATIONAL concern over ; Hollowed, Atlanta's noted c i v i l will not affect any person tried I to receive new tenants. America's dual justice is reflect- i rights lawyer. "We intend to save and convicted before it becomes i Most are Negroes. ed i n the fact that groups in young Cobb regardless of the law—thus once again slamming the door that could gain young Egypt. A u s t r a l i a , India and | cost." Freddie's Beauty Shop W H I L E messages condemning Cobb a stay of execution. France have appealed for a stay D O N ' T MISS O U R Cobb's death sentence continued Atty. Hollowed meanwhile is j of execution for Cobb, given the ULTRA SHEEN death sentence for allegedly k i l l - to pour i n . the Georgia S t a t e seeking a chance to argue for a | HAIR PERMANENT ing of a white South Georgia Legislature was passing a bill new t r i a l for Cobb before Judge j 312 W. CENTER ST. raising the legal age for execu- Carpenter of the Circuit Court of j farmer. MILWAUKEE, WIS. But Georgia, like some other j tion to 17. from 10 years of age^j Appeals i n his struggle to save FR 2-956S FREDDIE BANKS , which had been Georgia law for ; the youth from death. Southern states, has a notorious record in the execution of Negroes. Though this state has never put RESTAURANT a white woman to death, a Negro With Home Cooked Foods woman. 44-year-old Lena Baker, • EXPERT WORKMANSHIP • PROMPT SERVICE F E A T U R I N G O R I G I N A L B E A N PIE was executed in 1945 for the murFree Pick Up and Delivery Service 2805 N. 3rd St. Milwaukee, Wis. der of a white man. FR 2-9717 FROM 1945 to 1962. 164 people PHONE LO 2-1610 V E R N O N X. PROP. J O N A H X. MGR. met death in the electric chair. Of that n u m b e r . 132 were Negroes. Only 32 were white. GAMBLIN'S RADIO & TV Georgia has executed 2 6 men for rape since 1945. A l l of them, RECORD SHOP including two 16-year - old boys, 2 6 7 8 N O . 9th STREET 2 6 0 5 N . 12th St. MILWAUKEE 6, W I S . were Negroes. Other prisoners besides Cobb MILWAUKEE, WIS. LOCUST 2-8975 are currently living i n death row PHONE FR 4-3211 EYDIE V. WATT at Reidsville. awaiting execution.
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