Who Will Save The Negro? Muhammad Speaks Newspaper 5-22-1964 by Muhammad Speaks

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Mr. Muhammad By E l i j a h AAuhammad

This article is a continuation of what you ,%hould know, what you shu(^d do, and your place in this change of worlds, governments, and peo pie. You have the best offer; better than that of any other human beings who have ever lived. You have been taught for the past 33 years from the mouth of Almighty God, Allah, through His messenger that you are the first and the iavF-Âťan</ that you have been lost in what He (Allah) calls a wilderness; a place of M A S S I V E D E M O N S T R A T I O N S in N a s h v i l l e , met w i t h M a s s i v e P o l i c e Brutality a g a i n s t N e g r o ^Youth L e a d e r s s u c h a s J o h n L e w i s , (left) w h o c o m e out of T e n n e s s e e jail to g e t b o c k o n t h e l e c i o l Story o n P a g e 4 , 5 , 6 . )

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(Special to Muhammad Speaks;) PRETORIA, South Africa— The death of two of Africa's most courageous black leaders may come before African-Asian members succeed in obtaining action by the Security Council to deal with t h e vicious extermination and segregation policy of white South African rulers. An official South African lynching is now under way here, where Walter M. Sisu,lu, 52-year-old black secretary of the outlawed African National Congress and the intrepid Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,-bead of the same organization, are on trial, charged with 192 acts of violent sabotage of South African industries to force the cotmtry to free the black majority from virtual slavery. BOTH Mandela and Sisulu have proudly admitted that they reverted to the policy of violence and sabotage so that "Africans could obtain their freedom." "We would not conlihueTo preach non-violence w h e n the situation was so desperate," Sisulu testified in the VICIOUS AND INHUMAN flogging of African ^omen who dared to demonstrate lost year against degrading segregaSupreme Court. tion laws which restrict every move made by South Africa's 11 million black population, brought forth retaliatory action from African nationalist leaders, setting the stage for the most murderous alleged "trial" since the Reichstag fire Mandela said he was pretrial during the days of Noxi's Hitler. pared to die for his country. On trial with the two top black leaders are six other Africans, two whites and one I n d i a n charged with engineering the most militant plan yet uncovered to overthrow white supremancy. The plan, called for "a massive onslaught on selected targets which w i l l cause of Egypt's appropria- as the nation that had done (Special To Muhammad Speaks) create maximum havoc and tion of the Suez Canal. more than any other to help CAIRO:—Two of the strongest leaders of Africa—Alconfusion."The continued friendship the Algerian people. geria's Ahmed Ben Bella and Egypt's Gamel Ahdel Nasser Sisulu said that the govbetween Russia and Egypt He praised Premier Fidel ernment had told him that continued to shake the foundations of the Christian West was emphasized in press rewith continued pledges and actions of full cooperation with he could escape death if he leases here even as Algeria's would give "vital informa- Russia and the Socialist World. President Ahmed Ben Bella Egypt's President Nasser tion." returned from Moscow anwelcome Russia's P r e m i e r Khru- nouncing similar friendship BUT N E I T H E R he nor the shchev in a two-week long and—aid agreements after a other defendants have ofvisit celebrating the opening 12-day Russian visit. At a fered a single lead. All seem i resigned to either full liberty | of the great Aswan Dam, a rally in Moscow Ben Bella or death. | monument more immense was cited as being "in The plan, so-called "cor- i and useful than the greatest the forefront" of the propyramid ever built, made gressive struggle for the lib(Continued on Page 20) partly possible by loans and eration of mankind. technical aid from Russia. Algeria's President replied MUHAMMAD SPEAKS Nasser has also stated that that "Algeria has definitely Published Bi-Weekly Premier Khrushchev will ad- chosen the path of socialdress the Egyptian parlia- ism." He said this was his Vol. 3—No. 18 May 22, 1964 me^, the f i r s t foreign answer to the Western Press Published by which was attempting to put leader permitted to do so. Muhammad's Mosque No. 2 It was Khrushchev w h o pressure on his nation to President Ben Bella 634 E. 79th St., Chicago, ill.. 60419 had supported Nasser in his force it to oppose the Soviet ABerdeeo 4-8622-23 struggle to build the import- Union. Castro of Cuba for whom he SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ant dam when Western capiThe Algerian M u s i 1 m has long had high admira!?6 Isiiesl $5.20 President Nasser .-•esl $10.I)C

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the Messenger of Allah Sets New Facte for Blwm. Americo Major Speech Series. .

Messenger. The great Islamic leader, now hailed nationally and internationally as the m o s t prophetic and dynamic of modern leaders in the history of black America, will be making his first speaking engagements since the Savior's D a y Convention in Chicago. The Messenger of Allah has selected three key cities for his special messages:

(Special) The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Detroit, M i c h i g a n Allah and leader of the largMay 24, 1 9 6 4 est Islamic movement in the history of the Western HemCobo Arena isphere, announced here this " T h e Rigbt Solution week the f i r s t of a new series of public addresses in Is Offered^' three American cities. * ** The forthcoming speaking N e w Y o r k City tour of the Messenger is con-sidered perhaps the m o s t June 28, 1 9 6 4 important to be made by The Armory any black leader in the nation and will be attended not 1 4 2 n d St. & L e o n x A v . only by thousands of follow"Factual Mistakes ers of the Honorabig, Elijah You Are Making" Muhammad, but by fiational and international leaders as * ** well as representatives of Los A n g e l e s , C a l i f . African - and Asian nations present in America. August 9, 1 9 6 4 After each address, the O l y m p i o A u d i t o r i u m floor will be opened to all attending for the purpose of " T h e T i m e A n d W h a t asking questions. Each quesM u s t Be D o n e " tion will be carefully and * * » f r a n k l y answered by the There will be s e v e r a l *

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SAVIOR'S DAY SCENE in Chicago Coliseum, the only speech delivered thus far In 1964 by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, will be duplicated throughout the nation beginning with special address In Detroit, buses, leaving the Mosque jn Chicago to New York for $31.00 roimdtrip. Departure time is Friday, June 26, at 8 p.m. A bus also will leave

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eousness and the doings of good. For the past 400 years, you h av e been robber completely of the knowledge of self and kind and of Almighty God— the Creator and Maker of the heavens and the earth. We m%i direct descendants 6 God, while those who have and still mistreat us are the direct offspring of a rebellious scientist of God. A scientist who grafted and made the white man an enemy to us. From the rebellious spirit of their creator, they have deceived, murdered and ruled the righteous who are of the original Black Nation of the earth. This has been made very clear. Being born and nursed by the enemy of ^righteousness, you have fallen in loae with them. The hisfory of the life of your fathers reveals an evil, murderous condi. fion that they had to un-

dergo. The treatment you are receiving now and have received should bear enough witness to the truth. Your love for this unalike people and their wealth, which they have robbed you of and the majority of your '., now makes you Want to be o f i e a £ them and desire to intermarry with such people while history has recorded them as b u r nin g your actual living flesh at the stake out of the law of justice. - We live in a government that has always yielded and sided with the murderers and those who slay us and our p e o p l e at h o m e and a b r o a d ; anywhere the black man may be on the earth. You should realize that your black brother is your black b r o t h e r wherever he is on the face of the earth. Look at your brother in Africa who has been dominated by the Europeans and

from Chicago to Detroit for ing struggle of the black $10.00 roundtrip. Departure man in America to obtain time is Sunday, May 24, at justice, an increasing number of leaders and citizens 6 a.m. jare Icrklng forward to the V/ith the mounting crisis | divine guidance given by the in civil rights and the grow- noted Muslim leader.

other white races of the earth. HenSb fighting for a chance to shake off the shackles of the open enemies, while you here in America profess to be their friends. Are not you ashamed of yourselves, seeking love and intermarriage with them? Your brother is trying to regain the power of his own country. You are playing the part of a hypocrite to yourself and kind—wherever they live by appealing to the murderers to accept you as one of them, as their son-in-laws, and daughter-in-laws. What a fool you are making of yourself without the knowledge of self and the time in winch you are living. This is the time that justice has come to you to settle the injustice done to you by your enemies and separate you from such'evilpeople and give you a place somewhere on this earth that you can call your own.

Michigan, on May 24. The new series Is regarded as perhaps the most significant end timely to be set by the great Islamic feeder.

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But you do not want a place of your own; you want to continue to live in a place with the murderers and crushers. What a silly people you are. At the same time, he is shooting and killing you in the open eyes of the world; showing that he is your worst enemy and hated you from the very beginning and will always hate you as long as he is a humaii being ihade in the nature in which he is. The Prophets were unable—from Moses to Muhammad—to reform him into a God-like person to deal justly. He cannot be r e f or me d unless you graft him back into that winch he was grafted from. As Jesus said to N i c od emu s, "By no means can you see the kingdom of heaven unless you be born again." This refers, here, to the whole of the Caucasian race. They must be born

again. Not just a change; but a change in the very nature of them. You are lying at their gates and foot-steps begging, fighting, and bleeding and f ailing from their blows and gun shots. You are jf^ng to get them to accept you as their equal and as a free person. There is no way that you can settle the price of justice between you and your open enemy but by your entire submission to the will of Allah who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad and come follow me; your brother Elijah Muhammad. HURRY AND JOIN UNTO YOUR OWN KIND. T H E TIME OF THIS WORLD IS NOW AT HAND. WRITE TO: MUHAMMAD'S MOSQUE NO. 2 5335 So. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615 Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah

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MAY 22, 1964

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is Account of Nashville \ By Sylvester Leaks NASHVILLE, Tenn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The story here is one of violence and blood, might and determination. It is the violence and might cop: "Don't hit her no more! to avoid an investigation into employed by brutal and sa- Don't hit her no more! If you the brutality of the cops. distic white cops and thugs do I'll blow your d a m n More than one hundred stuto spill the tender _blood of^.ftrains^t!" dents were arrested, charged Negro teenagers n i is the deThe white* cep.., stopped with contributing to the determination of these teen- beating the girl but the Ne- linquency of a minor. While agers, no matter what the gro cop was placed under ar- the students were being loadcost, no matter what the sac- rest by six white cops. The ed into the Paddy Wagon, rifice, to bring about passage matter was quietly squashed other students surrounded it of a Public Accommodations Law, which is now stalemated in the City Council; to bring about passage of an F E P C bill and complete desegregation of all public schools. The cost has been heavy, without a smell of victorylet aione*^ taste of it. The violence began when a b o u t 350 teenagers began demonstrating before s e g r e g a t e d restaurants downtown to make public their demands. The demonstrations caught the entire white popi^ation and most of the adult Negro population off guard. It was organized by the teenagers. When the students sat down in the middle of the streets to block traffic, cops lit into t h e m mercilessly shouting "Kill the niggers! Hit the niggers!" And so they did. Twentythree students suffered injuries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from concussions to broken noses and split heads. A white cop whipped a twelve year old Negro girl so badly that it forced a Negro ccp, Charles Hamilton, to forsake job and duty for Negritude. He shouted to the

to prevent it from being driven off. Again the cops tore into them. It should be noted here that the blocking of traffic and surrounding the Paddy Wagon was not part of the organized plans. The students did this on their own. Later they were condemned for it by their non-participating adult "leaders." Indeed, the local head of the NAACP

suggested that the students were responsible for the violence against 4b stead of the perpetrat' The students are imdaiuited despite the fact that the steam was turned up to more than one hxmdred degrees when they were put in their cells. They were told by the Turn (Continued on page 5)

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It infuriated and embarrassed me. I said, 'Here I am sitting around on my buttocks while white people are suffering to help me.' So I joined SNCC. I have not regretted it." Is there fear among the students? Again," Mr. Winters: " I feel more scared w i t h a white boy than with Negroes or a white girl. They will almost kill the white boy, shouting "Git that nigger lover."

Key: "Yawl wuz dying to git in jail so I just want to make sure yawl git watcha want." They are undaunted, although a sixteen year old boy was picked up bodily and slung into the streets by several cops. He is still in the hospital. When he was brought into court, .bloody as a freshly killed hog, the Judge still refused to order medical attention. 4 16-year old boy was vio. kicked in the crouch Most students spoken to do oy a white thug, while cops not feel that non-violence will looked on. The kid is still in work in places like Missisthe hospital. Judy Talbot, a sippi, Birmingham etc. Most white student, was slapped feel that they can win in brutally many times by a Nashville with non-violent di cop, while the mob egged rect action techniques. him pri and o t h e r cops The struggle in Nashville taugned. is drawn along class lines. Most of the students are On the one hand the black ready to defend themselves bourgeoisie is completely but are being held back by aloof from the struggle for they have an economic stake their leaders. One student said flatly: " I in the status quo. The white an take sqn^atf the violence middle, class is either scared isf-^g^B^^^^^ White" tfang$.or quiescent. The low income tut when the cops get vio- Negro adults are e i t h e r lent like this I am ready to afraid or apathetic. get un-non-violent and deIt can truthfully be stated fend myself." that the adults are being led The students are con- by the teenagers. The Negro population of vinced that they will win. But they are convinced that "You Nashville is 77,000 out of a can't win in Court. We will total population of 200,000. have to win in the streets." The chief industries are inlocked In face-to-foce dialogue with THE CAMERAMAN CAUGHT this candid One of t h e restaurant surance and records. More hamburger stand attendant and companshot of demonstrator with slogan on his chains, which is being pickions who seem ready for violence. sign, "This Is a non-violent demonstration," (Continued on page 6) eted by the students, has voted to dissolve its partnership and sell out, rather than serve Negroes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is rumored. The demonstrators were orgMMed bybtestÂŤr MeKipT ney, Nashvilie leader-**f SNCC. An Injunction was obtained by the firms being picketed, against all the leaders of the demonstrations, all of those arrested, their sympathizers and friends to forbid further demonstrations. The students still picketed. John Doe Warrants were issued, meaning that anyone could be arrested under it, although his or her name was not specified. This has not deterred the youths either. A day later about two hundred -tudents from Fisk University demonstrated. Bus drivers were refusing to r i d e students wearing SNCC buttons. How does a Negro youth get involved in struggles like these? Listen to Nathal Winters, a Negro of 22 at Fisk: vain effort to prevent police from loading up the v e h I c l e " I saw a white student get- COURAGE TOOK MANY forms during the violence in Nashwith arrested demonstrators. ting whipped by boodlums, ville, tenn. Brave youths surround a poddy wagon to block It while the cops were laughing from mowing, while a yOung student holds his hands aloft in

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than 45% of all recordings in the United States are made in Nashvilie. Two of the world's largest insurance companies are located here. The amount of Negroes emp^^ed by these firms are n^pjgible, very negligible. John Lewis of SNCC believes that victory is only a matter of time. He bases this conclusion on the fact that when demonstrations were heldJ^re three years ago most j H | j | e hotels, motels, restlfp|l|^, airports, etc. were desegregated. John LewS^^^j feels that tlie Negro adilTt commimity, o..r.e prodded by something dramatic, will come aroimd. He feels that the sight of their children being beaten may be the dramatic act that was needed. They saw the -olice department in its most icious form. When asked if he saw the struggle in Nashville moving to a.iother level, if their dei>;iritls were not met, John A- (3 stated: " I think we are if ery crucial point in the vi Civil Rights move-

ment. I think something very new is developing. "We have one hundred white men in Washington who are filibustering and tampering with the destiny of 22,000,000 blacks. The Negroes are very restless. And in a sense desperate. New tactics, new means are going to be needed." John Lewis further belives that the Civil Rights (Struggle will, for a long time, be w a g e d non-violently. There is a growing numt^; of Negroes who will not, perhaps understand the depth of meaning of non-violence. Who are so fed up with being pushed against the wall that they will say we are ready to fight. Mr. Lewis said he "believes that within the constitution all the necessary ingredients are there to provide for the basic protection for all American citizens. "It is very alarming, and shocking that in 1964 we have to be discussing a C i v i l Rights bill. I don't see the Civil Rights bill as a sign of great progress. "The Civil Rights bill is

nent Negro families, such as the girl In center, daughter of a famous NcBhvllle Negro doctor, but many from therank-and-fileof Negro life.

nothing more than a design to take the struggle out of the streets, put it in the Courts to bog it down, to take the fire out of the struggle. "When you look at the composition of the Congress, most of them come from wealthy families; they can't understand the aspirations, needs, and longings of millions and millions of oppressed people who never had anything. "Within the Civil Rights movement there is a growing interest in nationalismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; A lot of students are saying that we are working for desegregation but there are still some things we want to hold, some things we want to keep. "There is a great deal of interest in many students in Africa, in being identified with the struggle in Africa. "The whole question of automation is a very serious question. In this country there must be some basic economic changes in our economic structure. "The Civil Rights movement will not solve some of our basic problems. When it

comes to the question of unemployment or full employment, the Civil Rights movement can't solve it. "We have got to raise the question, dramatize It, and say to the federal government that you have to solve it. There is not enough jobs for Negro or white. There must be some sort of revolt on the part of the masses. And in effect say to the government, you have the obligations to provide us a decent job. Instead of President Johnson talking about a nine billion dollar War on Poverty, he should be talking about fifty or sixty billions." When asked, where will the struggle go, how wUl it end, the Negro youths all seem confident. The sentiments of the white people, by and large, is summed up in these words of Woodrow Wilson, carved on the face of the Memorial Building in Nashville, hearing distance of where the cops so relentlessly beat back t h e demonstrators: "America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that

gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured." In Nashville it can truthfully be said that "America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles of racism. But it is the blood of her black citizens."

Merge Fighters for Freedom In Senegal DAKAR, Senegal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two nationalist movements o f Portuguese Guinea, operating from their bases in Senegal, have m e r g e d their forces to present a united front in an armed struggle against Portuguese control over their homeland. The organizations are thÂŤ Union of Portuguese Citizens (URGP) and the Portuguese Guinea Independence Struggle Front (FLING). Under the merger agreement, the combined group still r e t a i n s the n a m e F L I N G , and URGP general secretary Benjamin PlntoB u I I becomes information and press secretary.

MAY 22, 1964

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Tm a Better AAan Because of Islam' By Edward 4X In the first installment of this two-part story, Brother Edward 4X goes over his past, detailing his life as a narcotics addict and pickpocket. By the time he was 23 years old, he had been arrested six times and spent more than five years in prison. In this final chapter, he describes how the teachings of Islam completely changed his life, * * *

NEW YORK—I have no desire to do anythin'j wrong now. This does not mean that I don't have moments of depression and trials and tribulations—just like everyone else. The big difference is that through the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Mnhammad, I now can face up to my problems—something I never had the courage to do before I accepted Islam. B e i n g perfectly honest But nobody has mentioned about it, I can't credit the my past to me since I acremarkable change that has cepted Islam. taken place in my life to my Islam has given me ammother, my father or any- bition and Incentive to acMUSLIM BROTHERS STANDING In front weather. Minister Nathaniel X was the body else—except Islam and complish something of which of the new Muhammad's Mosque of Islam speaker. Brothers In picture (left to right) the teachings of the Honor-11 can be proud. It made me In Memphis, Tenn. on famed Beale St. The are Emmett X (Jones, Copt. Robert 2X able Elijah Muhammad. see that somebody cared. mosque—a spacious two-story building (Hunt), Minister Nathaniel X (Meadows), The Messenger of Allah has I owe a great debt to our with dining room, office area and other John X (Golden). Edward X (Skinner) and brought about my rehabUi- Savior, Allah, for blessing rooms—held Ifs grand-opening services George 2X (Hudson). tation. I now live better be- me to be able to bear witbefore a capacity house despite Inclement cause I have the desire to ness that w h a t the Honorlive better. After my stay able Elijah Muhammad is in the hospital at Lex- teaching is 101 per cent true, ington, Kentucky, where I i I thank Allah. I thank the Former Paratrooper Finds 'kicked" the narcotics hah-1 Honorable Elijah Muhamit, it was Islam that kept me mad for feeling the way he from falling back into my does about us. old ways. This was the key to my change for the better. The Messenger has given me named the temple after himBy Walter B. Brooks, J r . everything I have. self and he has a big Chrys(Nonuet. New York) ^ - ler Imperied, while members I am married now and I'm studying electricity. I read a I am very much interested in the message of Allah. I of his congregation look like great deal—history, current was brought up in the Methodist Church, attended the Bap- they "have had it." events, Negro history, etc. Sister Rebecca X I know 1 don't have to extist Church and, at the age of 16, was baptized and conWhen I returned from LexWilmington, Del. firmed a Catholic. I am 22 and I think I have finally found plain, because you've seen it ington, Brother Joseph put in action. I want to say thank Allah myself. me into the restaurant where I served as a paratrooper. The reason for this letter ty and I am doing very well. i learned how to cook. With for the truth that he gave There I found out how we is two - fold: I want to be Only a few businesses can me, through the teachings of another brother, I now am preparing to open a restau- the Honorable Elijah Mu- were really hated — like the profit here: barbers, imder- taught and accepted in Islam plague, brothers, believe me. takers and bar owners. It and I'd like to see the estabrant on Long Island, right hammad. During this period, I made seems, also, that religion is lishment of a mosque in the For this I am thankful. across from the B e l m o n t friends with a fellow from becoming very profitable to j suburbs of New York, which For he is teaching us to Race Track. are growing with our people. stand up and be our self Maywood, 111. On visiting his i the heads of chiu-ches. The reason why I am so since I have been a follow- home, he related to me that | Here are a few examples: There are people out here enthusiastic about Islam and er, I have learned so many some of his relatives were In the town where I work, who have never seen 'tUttk the teachings of the Mess- things I never knew before. Muslims. When he tried to t h e r e are preachers who lims or heard the word ^ H t enger is that I now can move I have been blessed so tell me who the devil was, I have special-made suits and reaUy is. about the old environment many ways. The brothers just laughed and said it was brand - new cars and conThe muslim religion has without falling prey to the and sisters have helped me a "way-out" religion, not re- stantly preach of a new life old problems. Further, as a many times. Truly Islam is alizing that someday I would in the hereafter. (We want awakened a new pride in ourselves—even if some will result of Mr. Muhammad's a living thing. make an attempt to embrace % now). A minister here not admit that it has. teachings — the change they | this religion. wrought in my life — my i After b e i n g discharged | mother has come into the \ C O R E Fights Theater from the service, I went to | Nation of Islam. I am so | Bias in New Orleans work as a part-time taxicab i C L O T H I N G M A D E in O u r O w n F a C . O . D . — C a s h or B u d g e t happy with being a follower \ NEW ORLEANS — Mem- driver and I attended a barO TO YOUR MEASURE • Y O U R C H O I C E O F FA of Mr. Muhammad that even ber school in New York City. if, by some stretch of the bers of the Congress of RaDuring this time I came to i imagination, it c o u l d be cial Equality have mounted learn more about the Musa full-scale attack against proved wrong, I would still segregated theaters h e r e lims, but in a different perkeep the Islamic faith. with picketing and stand-ins. spective; not as fanatics, but What really won me over Several of the demonstra- as people helping their own, to the Messenger's program tors have been arrested and to make them really free and ; is his philosophy that re- charged with "refusing to independent and self-reliant. I gardless of what you did yes- I move on," M i s s Ruthie Many times I have wanted i terday, if you come in here \ Wells, vice chairman of the to attend services at Temple 453 E A S T 79TH S T R E E T No. 7, but I had to travel a and act like a man today, I CORE here, said. all of that is forgotten. That's She s a i d the organiza- long distance and fight New; why I came in. I wanted tion wired Sonny Liston that York traffic. CRICAGO, ILLINOIS ^ somebody to forgive me for ] the championship fight h a d Please note that I am not I what I did. For awhile I ex-1 been scheduled "in segre- a city boy, but raised in the i pected somebody in the Na-; gated t h e a t e r s through- suburb. I work full time as a | tlon to bring up my past., out the South." barber in Westchester Conn-'

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MAY 22, 1964

A Champ's Day in Boston BOSTON — When someone cried out "Muhammad Alt, the heavyweight champion" is coming, people poured out of buildings . . . little chUdren ran to grab his hands . . . shoppers stopped to stare . . . passing c a r s slowed down for a better look . . . and the crowds grew greater as he wound his way through the Negro community. Such was a typical day in the life of Muhammad Ali, nee Cassius Clay, since he became a follower of the H o n o r a b l e Elijah Muhammad and the first Muslim heavyweight champion of the world.

dren s h o u t ' I am t h e greatest.' "The teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad gives us a true knowledge of our history and of our own selves. It gives us the t r u e history and science of t h e world of black people. It gives us pride in ourselves and our people," Ali commented. "It is because I am a follower of the Messenger that has brought me personal in-

vitations from Asian and African Presidents and Prime Ministers," he said. "Many Negro celebrities take State D e p a r t m e n t 'goodwill' tours of Africa or Asia," Ali said, "but f e w have received the personal congratulations and invitations from so many world leaders." Th§ popular champion said it was his belief in the religion of Islam, as taught by the Messenger of AUah, that

gave him the strength and confidence to call the v e r y roimd in which he would knock out his opponent. "You, too, can have t h e power to overcome the obstacles in your struggle for freedom if you will accept Islam as your religion and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as l e a d e r and teacher," he said. When he f i n i s h e d , the champion stepped out of the mosque and was greeted by

When this account is read, however, the young b l a c k champion will be well on the way to an extended tour of Africa and Asia, the political and social implications of which already have had a shocking impact upon the world of racial injustice and white Christianity. Prior to flying to Cairo, t h e heavyweight champion visited a number of mosques on the West Coast, spoke to capacity auditoriums, signed countless autographs and praised the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for the inspiration and insight it had given him. " I love to hear black chil-

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MAY 22, 1964

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. 4 ame CHESTER, Pa. — Bloody and brutal weeks of racial strife have made the name and white supremacy game of this "unknown" little town as well known in the capitals of the world as the history of Harper's Ferry. The difference here is that the "John Brown" of Ches- deputized garbage collectors ter is a Negro ex-paratroop- and issued them helmets and er, Stanley Branche, who nightsticks to await the arheads the Committee for rival of civil rights marchFreedom Now, with a better ers from the Negro section, James Farmer, executive chance of winning his revolt against held-over slavery director of the Congress of than the white John Brown. Racial Equality (CORE), And while the demonstra- came here and summed up tions, picketing and demands the situation this way: "The brutality of the pofor equal justice have centered around Chester schools lice and state troopers here --fiitended by 6,000 Negroes is worse than Mississippi and as compared to 4,000 whites this is the North where Gov. —the world regards the vi- William W. Scranton, one of cious Chester scene as sym- those non-candidates who is bolic of the fight against ra- running for President, has cial injustice of all kinds in offered state help to the Chester authorities." America. So vicious was the brutaliAlthough the demonstrations have died down, the ty inflicted against Negroes unity of the Negroes (40 per here that a white United cent of the city's 63,000 peo- Press International photogple) remains alive and ag- rapher, Philip K. Elliott, Who gressive — and set for the covered the violence, said: "I've never seen anything next Chester chapter. like it. It really turns your At the height of the struggle, more than 600 persons stomach. Of course I have were jailed, with more than seen N e g r o e s throwing 20 injured and some 100 re- bricks, too, but the police maining in jail. City officials were the aggressors in most instances." not only hurled the armed Farmer promised the full might of its police against the demonstrators but even (Continued on page 10)

UNMERCIFUL AND VICIOUS clubbing of unarmed demonstrators by state and city police foiled to stop the Chester Freedom fighters or to break their ranks. A Negro

policeman here seems overanxious to ploy his sorry role, while the demonstrator vainly attempts to cover his head.

Awaiting the Signal-to March

READY FOR THE next day's demonstration, Negroes of Chester, Pa. packed the halls of their meeting places day-by-day. They conducted the most massive and unified drive against segregation yet to be seen In the "Hot Summer" of '64. At left Is Inset of ex-paratrooper Stanley Branch, chairman of the Freedom Now Committee spearheading the Campaign In opposition to de facto segregation In public schools.

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HELPLESS DEMONSTRATOR "walking the plank" of a gauntlet of heavyweight clubs. So aggressive and brutal were the attacks upon the unarmed demonstrators that the

entire Negro community was aroused to throw Its frill weight behind the Committee for Freedom Now, headed by Stonley Branche.

force of CORE to back the demands of the Chester Committee for Freedom Now. which include correction of the following abuses: • Inferior education standards in non-white schools. • Failure to appoint Negroes to supervisory and administrative positions. • Gerrymandering of boundary lines defining school zones in order to perpetuate segregation. • Assignment of Negro teachers only to Negro schools. But it is more than improvement in schools here which has inspired the magnificent stand of this city's Negro population, once described as "docile." Branche has pointed out that the unity and drive of the Negroes here could change the picture of the city and the state. Speaking to a mass demonstration, he told his audience that in winning the struggle, it will become possible to elect "Negro city councilmen and, if you want one, a Negro mayor." The huskily-built, outspoken Branche said he "got angry just looking at Chester." On police brutality, he declared: "Chester Negroes didn't have any hope. The police

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used to take Negroes and beat their brains out . . . " Of the 27,000 Negroes Who live in this Delaware River port, half live in poverty on a family income of $4,000 annually or lower. Nearly 13 per cent of the Negro families live in abject squalor, with an income of less than $1,000. Fourteen per cent of the employable Negroes are Jobless, compared to only seven per cent of the employable whites. The upheaval among the b l a c k population became so alarming last week that Dr. Robert L . Dewitt, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Dr. Jefferson Fordham, drove at midnight to IIarrisburg,-roilt<r— ed Governor Scranton ottt of bed at midnight and begged him to intervene. The Governor ordered the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission to conduct a full-scale investigation.

No Negro Firemen ot Police in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM. A 1 a. — This Alabama city, with a population of 375,000—37 per cent Negro—has no Negroes on the police force or in the fire department.

MAY 22, 1964

MUHAMMAD SPEAKS

K*C* Educator Had Heart KANSAS C U V , Mo.—liow many impoverished Negro children enter school e a c h morning t o r n by hunger pains may not be known — but the estimate is that they number in the hundreds in America. The sight^pf literally starving children sitting through classes in which they are expected to be bright and alert during a school day is a familiar one to, many teachers in the slums of the North and South. But In Kansas City, Muhammad Speaks found one teacher who not only noticed it, but did something about it. She is Mrs. Evelena Hill, p r i n c i p a l of the George Washington Carver School, who could not sleep nights thinking of these poor, ragged, black children — their stomach's empty, their faces tense, their eyes listless. "One day I took a survey," Mrs. Hill said. " I went from -^oem to room. I found a staggering number had had no breakfast that morning—and some had not eaten a decent meal in 48 hours." The principal got the cooperation of h e r teachers and from their own pockets pooled enough money to buy breakfast for the h u n g r y ones. Then she began a determined campaign to secure outside funds to serve their breakfast each morning. She was finally granted assistance from the Director of Food Service of the B o a r d of Education of Kansas Cify, Mo., and she studies h e r b r o o d with scientific appraisal. A strange c h a n g e was coming over the children. Mrs. Hill said, "Children who had been listless and 'slow learners' began to perk up and scored high averages. Children who seemed uninterested and ready to drop out, began to act as if they loved school. They became more attentive and our discipline problems fell off." When Muhammad Speaks visited the school, the children were having breakfast of oatmeal, toast, jelly and milk. Most of the parents of t h e s e children are unemployed, as are nearly 20 per cent of all N e g r 0 e s in the Kansas City area. Civic leaders here, interested in the project launched by Mrs. Hill, have been openly amazed at the changes brought about by the simple combination of "food p l u s education." While interest in the Kansas City project is spreading, the p l i g h t of other halfstarved Negro school children remains, for the most part, totally ignored in such

PREVIOUSLY half-starved children from Impoverished homes In Kansas City, Mo., being served breakfast before classes at the George Washington Carver School, while originator of

the "food plus educotian" project, Mrs. Evelena Hill (right), the principal, supervises.

cities as Chicago, St. Louis, New York, B o s t o n and Omaha. "This should not be," Mrs. Hill cried out. "With all the talk of preparing this generation with the proper education, we must begin with the s i m p l e fact that a halfstraved chad, first of all, needs food. "The outlook of so many of our poor children could be changed overnight — if they c o u I d be assured a g o o d breakfast before they started their classwork."

Hit Pontiac Trucking Co. Discrimination PONTIAC, Mich.—A group of militant Negroes here are protesting t h a t the Truckaway Corporation will not hire Negro truck drivers. Howard A t k i n s , spokesman for the group — which, began picketing the trucking company A p r 11 6 — complained that the company "will hire a white lady driver before they will hire a Negro-." Atkins was critical of both the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League, calling the Pontiac NAACP "very m u c h non-militant."

MRS. EVELENA HILL, principal of the George Washington Carver School In Kansas City, Ma., has encouraging and cheerful wards for young students while they eat breakfast supplied them through Mrs. Hill's

"food plus education" project. Before the food program was Initiated, m a n y of the youngsters were listless In class because they were hungry.

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MAY 22, 1964

these Crutches W e Call 'lndependence'1

{Philadelphia's Negro Congressman . . . Nix, together with other prominent leaders in the cause for right and justice in America, have thrown their weight behind the oppression and persecution of a courageous Negro woman, Mrs. Mae Mallory, whose two-year long fight to become free from phony charges of "kidnapping a white couple" in a Southern State has aroused international attention The following poem is from a grass-roots admirer of t/tis black woman's fight to be free). To Mae Mallory (By Hil V a n Lardincham) (Afro-American Student at Buffalo State College) Awoke Cold One Night With Fear on my crying face . . Show me Mae's Smile Calm on her winning face . . Now Cold my wet face with Fight growing. in«aft|feheart^- • • I'll Join you Now, Mae With a Smile on my ebon face. Singing . . . - .

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Rights Fighters Win Appeal ALBANY, Ga. — The prediction here is that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is virtually certain to toss out some recent convictions the United States Justice Department pressed for and won against the forces of freedom. A reversal in the case of the six c o n v i c t e d civil rights advocates will embarrass Washington officials both at home and abroad If, as expected, it is based on documented defense claims that the federal government practices racial discrimination in the selection of grand and petit juries. This, in the opinion of experienced civil rights lawyers, leaves the Justice Department the choice of "confessing error" in the prosecution of leaders in the Albany Movement, or of suffering a precedent - setting reversal in the higher courts. The six freedom fighters are appealing stiff sentences after s e p a r a t e trials on charges of committing perjury before a grand jury.

jury were Rev. Samuel B. Wells, T h o m a s Chatmon, Robert Thomas, Mrs. Elza Jackson and Miss Joni Rabinowitz, an Antioch College student. The perjury convictions grew out of a case in which the grand jury investigated charges by white A l b a n y grocer Carl Smith that one hour of picketing by high school students on April 30, 1963, forced him out of business. The g r o c e r claimed the pickets had violated his civil rights by seeking to "punish" him for hi$ service on a federal jury that cleared Baker County S h e r i f f L . Warren Johnson. A Negro prisoner, Charles Ware, had accused Johnson of shooting and beating him on the jailhouse steps.

F I V E OF the defendants denied ever having been at a meeting in their attorney's office. The sixth, a northern student volunteer in this embattled city, told the grand jury she could not remember joining a particular picketing demonstration f o u r months earlier. Several weeks before the trials began, Slater K i n g , of the Albany Movement and one of the defendants, won a strong vote of confidence from the Negro constituency of Albany by emerging with the second highest tally of b a l l o t s in the mayoralty election here. In addition to Slater King, the others convicted of per-

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But the picket signs had demanded only that Smith u p g r a d e his Negro enT" ployees. None of the signs made reference to the grocer's jury service. No less t h a n "38 F B I agents" immediately were latmched on a fear - spreading probe and grand jury indictments and perjury convictions against the six followed, despite mass protests from throughout the nation. "IT IS tragic," the Southern Christian Leadership Conference declared at the time, "that the only instance w h e r e the Department of Justice has pressed for indictments has been against the f o r c e s of integration. And the "Student Voice," an SNCC publication, commented : "When a racist white grocer in Albany claimed he was put out of business by a one-hour picket line last April—the Federal Government, acting t h r o u g h the Justice Department, conducted the m o s t vigorous prosecution effort yet seen in the history of the c i v i l rights movement. . . . " Thus the conviction of the Albany Movement l e a d e r s was widely interpreted as a Justice Department - b a c k e d move to crush the leadership of the . Albany f r e e d o m struggle.

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An elderly Negro resident here put in layman's language the legal and constitutional issues which s o o n will confront the h i g h e r courts. Commenting on the indictments, she said: "Even the federal government is a white man."

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MAY 22, 1964

Editorial

Who Will Sove The Negro?

The most crucial question today in the Western Hemisphere is: "Who will save the Negro?"— and the only resounding and forthright answer has come from the true leader of Islam among black people in America: from the Messenger of Allah, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Few leaders are courageous enough to recognize the- fact that the American Negro has become a mighty nation of 20,000,000 . . . a nation within a nation . . . a nation whose f o r e b e a r s were b r o u g h t here in chains as s l a v e s and whose descendants today remain in the humilating status of "freed slaves." The soldier you see in the a d j a c e n t drawing represents the untold millions of black Americans who have given their blood and lives in every w a r to s a v e " w h i t e America" — yet has returned "home" to joblessness, c o n t e m p t , lynching and to hypocritical and insincere promises. The crisis comes today, however, because here a nation of people have reached a crossroads in their fight for freedoms — a crossroads from which there is no turning back. Who Will Save the Negro? History teaches that the greatest of Saviors have been spawned in the midst of their own suffering people. History shows, whether in the case of the Hebrews or the Arab nations, one divinely-guided and inspired to figfit fearlessly for a true and lasting solution has come forth at the crucial time. Our own Divine Messenger . . . one who has suffered t h r o u g h our own deprivations . . . who has been subjected to jailing and to the cruelest slander and misrepresentation. — But one who has fearlessly answered the all time question: Who will save the Negro? The one who can save the Negro is one who has a P R O G R A M to restore our people to a rightful land of their own; to a

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rightful name of their own; to their j u s t - d e served dignity and status and rightful place in civilized society. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the only leader who rejects identifying his people as digits — as a feeble minority forever in the savage bosom of a ruthless majority . . . a divine leader who does n o t a c c e p t h i s people as remaining forever second-class slaves of a soon-to-be secondclass empire. The Honorable Elijah M uhammad has truly Said: "I have been missioned

to teach my people in or lead itself. The Negro America the religion of cannot follow the old Islam and the knowledge echoes of a dying promof themselves and of ise which tried and failed —and failed again. The others . . . Negro cannot be led by "/ preach freedom and t equal justice for the so- h e v e r y Christianity called American Negro which has been the key . . . a thing he has never to his slavery, the sleepenjoyed. He has never ing pill which has prehad a chance to sit down vented his awakening. even at home and feel The Negroes' 400-yearthat he is protected by old prayers and search the laws of America. He for justice must be lead has never felt like that by one divinely inspired because he has never to answer his needs with been given equal justice courage and truth. under our laws." The Honorable Elijah has said, The Negro cannot con- Muhammad tinue to be "saved" by "You and I have arrived that which cannot save at a day of decision. We

have: come to the crossroads, the point where we must make a decision on what we shal' do or what we shall look forward to doing tomvrrow." He has said: "We believe in justice for all, whether in God or not." The Messenger states, "We believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality as a nation of equals." Herein lies the salvation of the Negro. Herein lies the leadership, and in the final analysis, the true solution.

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MAY 22, 1964

Councilman with a Conscience

By Edward SherriR (West Coast Correspondent) LOS ANGELES:—The Ku-Klux-Klan-type police brutality against Negroes, long known as the "trade mark" of "the law" here, is now under its most intensive attack by unified groupings of Negro political, fraternal and religious leaders. For the first time in any does not even warrant rem a j o r American city, an spect from Los Angeles poelected Negro City Official, lice if you are a Negro citiBilly G. Mills, has publicly zen." The question is asked by d e n o u n c e d the brutality against Negroes and de- Negro leaders if such is the case with a black city offimanded its abolishment. Mills, on a city-wide tele- cial, what chance does an orvision program, declared dinary Negro have to protect that he had been stopped himself against such police some 17 times by policemen interference? Perhaps the most gruewhile driving an official city vehicle, presumably as a some case of police brutality on record occurred some criminal suspect. "It seems," said M i l l s , two years ago when platoons "that professional s t a t u s ( C o n t i n u e d o n P a g e 18)

PROOF OF POLICE harassment and Interference with freedom of the press rights of Muhommad Speaks salesman, is presented to Los Angeles City Councilman Billy G. Mills (right) by Captain Edward Sherriil of the Los Angeles Mosque. The

same documented proof was submitted to the Police department. Mayor's Office and Human Relations Department of Los Angeles. Mills has had the courage to cho^r lenge police action against Negroes.

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Of Women And Zanzibar '^ey colonized the St. AodJrews College in By Harriett Muhammad Arabs it a ^ ited ii uiiough M T n a k i, Tanganyika, 17 (West Coast Correspondent) the-S9ves"ffidustry. Africans miles outside Dar es Salaam. QUESTION: In 1957, t h e (This is the second of were j u s t laborers to the Arab p l a n t e r s . This con- B a n d u n g Conference was a two-part interviiw with tinued on under the British held in Indonesia, consisting Tanganyika student Fun- Protectorate system. of Asian and African nations. bwe, interviewed on the When Zanzibar got its in- Do you think there is a ne-; West Coast by Muham- dependence, the Arabs were cessity to have another such still in control—so the Afri- conference now? mad Speaks.) cans considered themselves ANSWER: Yes, the AfriQUESTION: Do you think still under a foreign govern- can people and the Asian Zanzibar will b e c o m e in ment. So t h i s revolution people have m u c h in comEast Africa what Cuba is in which took place freed t h e mon. Asia and East Africa African from another imper- have been in touch for much the West? ^ ANSWER: No. I do h o t ialist—in this case an Arab earlier than have Africa and think the West understands imperialist. the West. In Tanganyika, for i Zanzibar h a s criticism example, a historian, Dr. F . what is happening in Zanzibar. Zanzibar has been under against the United States be- Grandville, has been workthe Arabs as early as t h e cause of the tracking station. ing on Arab history on the 8th century. Zanzibar is an If you allow Americans tg East Coast. He has f o u n d African Island, and when the have a tracking station in^ documents of trade relations Zanzibar, and the Americans which go back to about six fight the Russians, the Rus- hundred B.C., between Tansians would be wise to drop ganyika and A r a b i a and a bomb on Zanzibar to des- India. troy this tracking station. QUESTION: W h a t does If the Americans c l o s e their t r a c k i n g station, I the work UHURU mean to think the whole trouble be- the Tanganyikan? ANSWER: It means freetween Z a n z i b a r and the United States would be over. dom from foreign governWe don't see any reason why ment, I k J we should get involved in a QUESTION: Is there a war between America and trend t o w a r d increased Russia. equality for women of TanQUESTION: What is your ganyika? ANSWER: In many cases purpose for being here in the in Tanganyika, emphasis CIVIL RIGHTS champion Mrs. Marnesba T. TackeH, speaking United States? ANSWER: I c a m e to was on the boys, education- before the People's United Committee, cited the brutal America to s t u d y African ally speaking. This has been shooting of 7 unarmed men in front ef Muhammad's Mosque in history. When I complete my the problem of the women. 1962 and said that all that was necessary to have been s h o t studies I will return to my But our women in Tanganyi- that night was to have been "black and moving." Mrs. Tackett position as head master of called for unity in the fight to oppose police terror. Funows Mhinc (Continued on Page 22)

MAY 22, 1964

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Baldwin Writes Brilt ago ot Reviewed by Sylvester Leaks "Blues For Mr. Charlie" erupts on the Anta Theatre stage with the reverberating force of mighty claps of thunder, resounding with the rage and fury and horror which its author, James Baldwin, feels over the plight of black folks in white folks' America. The play is stitched with dered — ridicules and torfire and laced with brim- ments the white bully. stone. No one—be he black In many ways, "Blues For or white — can ever be the Mr. Charlie" cannot be classame once having seen it. sified as a play in the true The author's wrath is infec- meaning of the word. T h e tious. It will make you re- author — probing into the vengeful — as when the fa- minds of white oppressors ther, preaching the funeral and the hiaek oppressed to of his own son who was discover w h a t motivates killed by the town's w h i t e them — has abandoned the bully, asks the Lord: "What usage of dramatic escalation shall we tell our children?" and relied heavily upon the . « -i, L> roars, his own ari- noveiistic form. This would iCarn to walk again certainly he no iiahiiity, except, ail too often, the auli&n men! Like naen!" thor tends to over-write and IT WILL soften you when his dialogue, at times, is exthe liberal white newspaper- plicit instead of implicit. man of the town recounts But this is a minor critiwistfully how he once loved land still does) a Negro girl cism or personal preference. but Southern mores forbade It is what the author has to him to have her in marriage say — said beautifully and and removed her forever out acted b r i 11 i a n 11 y—that | of his reach and eyesight. It makes this play one of the most important pieces of will make you gloat, as when the'boy-who"was"iat"er m^" ""Jjf^^^"^^^'^^ ^^^.f^ THE WORK IS done without sets. Relying upon lighting — d o n e magnificently well by Feder—to create the moods, the action is moved smoothly back and forth in time. The evening, in my opinion, belongs to Diana Sands. She is one of the b e s t actresses in America. H e r soliloquy in court, as girl friend of the murdered fellow, is the most m o v i n g piece of artistry anywhere on Broadway. It is almost sacrilegious that the play runs on after her performance. Thereafter, ail else is anti-climactic. j JUST IN case there are' some "squares" who don't know who Mr. Charlie is — James Baldwin he's "The man."

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t'liIUliMaiii By TYNNETTA DEANAR What do our women of America expect to gain by actively supporting and participating in public demonstrations which claim to he in the interest of the hiack people's struggle for civil rights? Has it occured to us that we have not yet secured the recognition of human rights before the white citizenry of the United States. Furthermore, in their eyes, we will never secure either full recognition of our human rights or civil rights to the satisfaction of both parties involved.

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A head-nurse with 10 years experience in a Negro hospital prides herseif on the part she has played in giving its patients a sense of pride and care, not only for their health — hut for their hospital. Surgical nurse Mrs. Pearl Rawis, in the process of re- young," she says. "He sufceiving a certificate of merit fered from internal bleeding in the annual ceremonies and other complications, so highlighting National Hospi- many of his vital organs tal Week, looked back with were pierced. Muhammad Speaks report"He developed pneumonia ers at the amazing career of and bad a serious bout with helping the most deprived of fever—but through it all be citizens coming into Provi- remained cooperative and dent Hospital. bad such a strong will to live But despite the 'Critical that he gradually pulled need of the Nursing profes- through. Almost every nurse sion for trained Negro nurs- in the hospital looked after es, Mrs. RaWls admits that bim as tbeii-'pet.''.' thousands of young women The best indication of Mrs. have yet to see much merit Rawis' regard for her proin the profession. -—— fession is t » t o i | g ^ that she Although her work is now plans to G^mF^Yonij child, mostly administrative, Mrs. a daugbt^, f x> the nursing Rawis remembers when her ranks. Mrs. Rawis is curday-to-day contact with sick rently attending college prepatients was the most re- paring work towards her warding chapters in her life. Master's Degree. "To see a person come in Presentation of her Merit almost at the point of death Award will he made by Provand then slowly fight their ident Hospital Board Presiway back to good health is a reward in itself," she says. CAPITOL PAPER CO. She recalls the case of an PAPER PRODUCTS elderly man brought in suffering from stab wounds in 1344 H STREET, N.E. W A S H I N G T O N , D.C. the abdomen. "This would have been a Lincoln 3-7185 serious case even if he were 3-11 13 ST 3-11 u MATERRE BROS. Paint & Wallpaper Co.

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Nairobi Street Named for Chief of Mou Mou NAIROBI, Kenya — Moving another step in Africanization action, the city council here has renamed streets for some of Africa's leading freedom fighters and freedom expressions. Hardings St., was changed to Dedan Kimathi, the chief of the heroic Mau Man resistance group, which spearbeaded Kenya's r u g g e d struggle for jjidependence. Other streets have taken the names of Jomo Kenyatta, prime minister; Senir Chief Koinange, Daubi Wabera, former regional government agent slain last year; Harambee, w h i c h means "pull together," and Uburu, meaning "freedom."

Our basic trouble is that we are fanning the smoke of emotionalism and firing reactionary b u l l e t s in the w r o n g direction, for the wrong purpose, in the wrong places and at the wrong time. We are undermining our personal racial integrity by the misuse of our public conduct and our so-called right of protest: Tbe black man bas set up as many "Do not enter" signs in tbe face of bis own people as tbe wbite man bas. Tbe black man bas demonstrated a l m o s t as mucb bias and batred towards bis own people as be bas received from otbers. The h i a c k woman has ruled out integration in her own social s p h e r e as staunchly as any white conservative or segregationist. These are some of the rabid and embarrassing issues on the record of our own discriminatory a c t s . What's wrong with the so-called Negroes' conception of brotherhood? It appears to he rather one-sided, or should we say "white-sided?" This is part of tbe irony of tbe civil rights demonstrations. This is one of tbe unhealed sores in tbe black man's side today. Instead of

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BOSTON — Goaded into action by continued police brutality with Negroes on the receiving end, the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has begun a series of "Citizens' Patrols" in the black ghetto here. This direct action is the re- istration task force to help sult of another case of police Negroes to register to vote in brutality, with two Negro tbe South. Jimmy McDonald, teenagers as the principal an official from tbe national victims. They told a packed CORE office in New York Blue Hill Protestant Center City, is here to direct tbe here that they had been campaign. abused by police who turned "For the last seven years," vicious dogs upon them. McDonald said, CORE field l^pmas Atkins, executive workers have been asking 'secretary of the B o s t o n thousands of Southern NeNAACP, said tbe purposes groes, "Are you registered of tbe patrols are to investi- to vote?" gate police brutality and "Too many times the anseek to prevent crime in tbe swer bas been 'No.' HowevNegro commimities. er, this is true primarily beHe said tbe patrols will try cause tbe right to vote is blato dissuade wrongdoers. Fail- tantly denied tbe N e g r o — ing this, tbe patrols will im- Ph.D. a n d sharecropper mediately notify tbe police of alike." tbe district. He would not give the exact number of the Citizens' Patrols, but said the NAACP is urging all citizens to participate in policing their own neighborhoods and reporting ail violations of the law to the civil rights organization, which will turn the reports over to the proper authori(Continued from page 14) ties. Meanwhile, tbe Boston unit of armed-to-tbe-teetb policeof tbe Congress of Raciakimen descended upon innoEquality bas laimcbed a cent and unarmed Muslims, drive to create a voter reg- shot, beat and m a i m e d

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MEMBERS OF the NAACP of Kansas City, Mo., show what they hope will be the fate of Jim Crew. Hearse with this coffin was many;,^d then charged their victims with tbe crimes of their attackers. Preceeding tbe now-famous "frame-up" trial of 14 innocent Muslims, one young black man bad been shot and paralyzed for life and another k i 11 e d in cold blood. So flagrant was tbe action by tbe police that Roy Wilkins, bead of tbe NAACP, urged tbe Los Angeles community to oppose tbe viciousness of tbe police and to support tbe right of

port of a motorcade through Kansas City's Negro communities as the civil rights organizotioa opened its membership drive.

victims for a fair redress. Since that time, despite committee meetings w i t h Los Angeles' M a y o r and Chief of Police, the "trade mark" of the so-called law enforcement department here continues to he one of harrassment, intimidation and o u t r i g h t contempt for the vast non-white population of Negroes, Mexicans, Japanese and Puerto Ricans.

Clear Shuttlesworth W A S H I N G T O N — Tbe United States Supreme Court has cleamed r i g h t s leader Rev. Fred L . Shuttlesworth of a 1961 conviction and jail sentence imposed by tbe Jefferson County Circuit Court in Birmingham. Tbe 180 - day prison sentence had been handed Rev,^ Shuttlesworth in connection with a "Freedom Rider" incident at a Birmingham Grayboxmd bus station. .

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NAIROBI, Kenya—The hidden heroes hehind the African revolution—^from the sands of Egypt down to the snowcapped mountains of Kenya—have heen and remain its hrilliant and hrave hiack women. When the true story of the great African upheaval is ago, Mary Muthoni led huntold, the role of black wom- dreds of angry hut unarmed en will reveal them not only Africans past the Norfolk as tbe very "soul" of that Hotel in Nairohi and grouped revolt, but as tbe m o s t re- them aroond the police stalentless and ardent cham- tion where the British conpions of freedom tbe world stahulary was holding one of Kenya's early militant freebas known. One stark example is tbe dom fighters, Harry Thuku. history of women's particiTbe demonstrators chantpation in Kenya—^tbe nation ed freedom slogans and dewhich spawned the dreaded manded tbe r e l e a s e of Tbuku, who bad been arrested because bis group of militants challenged tbe colonial system and protested t h e oppressive measures taken against Africans. Chief S e c r e t a r y Sir Charles Bowring arrogantly refused their demand and ordered them to disperse—or else. At a signal from Mary Muthoni, tbe Africans rushed to the aluminiun sheet wall of tbe p o l i c e station and tried to pull it down. British police fired into tbe ranks of the weaponless Africans, killing more than 30 and woimding many otbers. Mary Muthoni, whose heroics of 1922 were documented by Kenyan historians, (Continued on page 23)

SCARCELY KNOWN OUTSIDE her native Togoiand, Madame Marguerite Adjoavi Trenou, Secretary General of the Union of Women of Togolond, symbolizes the indomitable spirit of African women through-

oat the continent whose basic leadership in the struggle for a better life for their people is, perhaps, the most heroic aspect of Africa today. Mrs. Trenou is shown here teoching a class in basic union leadership.

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FACE of a fighter — This Kenyan girl, a member of the Mou Mmi, only surrendered her arms when Kenya celebrated its independence. Mau Mau revolt against the British years before other revolts "caught on." Though Kenya now is free, it was n o t accomplished without tbe h e r o i c s and back-breaking labor of Kenyan women, who, over tbe long years of the struggle, gave their lives, were imprisoned, beaten, crippled and widowed. As in all revolutions, tbe m a j o r i t y of those who worked hard and sacrificed mucb for tbe cause are but faceless and nameless shadows of tbe past. For eacb name captured by tbe historians, hundreds are lost in tbe fast shuffle of time and events. But more than 40 years

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ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Three courageous attorneys here commended the conduct of their 15 Muslim clients in the long "four-time frameup" trials and announced plans for a determined appeal. Attorneys S t e v e n May, sion which we know may exE u g e n e Vanvoorhis and ist in spite of wbatevfr we John Branch said that "sub- may say." stantial grounds for appeal Attorney V a n v o o r h i s have been laid." pointed out that "these men Tbe trials of tbe y o u n g have certain rights to appeal Muslims, w h i c h attracted based upon legal errors in world-wide attention, grew the conduct of these proout of the forcible entry by ceedings . . . " police into their mosque on Attorney May said of tbe tbe pretext of "searching for Muslims: "They showed great fora gun." Various c h a r g e s were leveled at tbe Muslims, bearance through (an) exwho r e s i s t e d tbe unwar- tremely long and trying orranted assault upon them, deal over the course of more some of whom suffered in- than a year, and their conjuries from club and gun- duct was a great assistance to us in preparing and dewielding officers. "The conviction of one of fending them in court." these accoimts," said attor- The defendants have been ney Branch, "was unlawful placed on probation for one assembly, and I think t h i s year for their alleged part in has heen a determination by tbe Jan. 6, 1963, scuffle with this court that it is unlawful Rochester police, following to assemble for the purpose their conviction by an all'of your practicing your reli- white jury. Two of the previous juries gion . . . This is not the sithad heen unable to reach a uation." Branch added that one of verdict. The first trial was tbe reasons for tbe appeal halted because of courthouse was to "correct tbe impres- picketing.

2nd Bandung Conference

CIVIL RIGHTS leaders in Kansas City, Kansas, hove kninclied on dl-out campaign to have racially derogatory statements, phroses, words and illustrations purged from public school textbooks, such as the "Nursery Rhymes" book above, open to a

page ni rhymes repeating the offensive word, "nigger." Carl Randolph, presldbfit of the local Congress of Racial Equcdity, sold CORE "will not rest until these degrading things" ore removed from this and other public school textbooks.

JAKARTA, Indoite'sia — mit meeting will be held on Ten years after tbe f i r s t tbe lOtb aimiversary of tbe meeting of African-Asian first one in 1955. countries in Bandung, West (Continued from page 2 ) J*va, these countries will Don't Even Sing It nerstone" of tbe state's case a doubt that nothing less bold a second -Bandung^type^ - NAIROBI, Kenya—A Ken- against tbe defendants, is than outside military interya Broadcasting- Corporation conference on March 10, announcer here apologized known as "Operation Mayi- vention can free tbe black buye,'' combined guerrilla population. This is already 1965. over tbe air to tbe Kenya warfare by tbe imderground tbe position of many of tbe Delegates from 22 Asian government f o r including army to pave tbe way for and A f r i c a n countries "Rule Britannia" in a med- i n v a s i o n from "outside SHABAZZ CARRYOUT attending a "preparatory ley of sea songs played on forces." one of tbe station's morning & MARKET meeting" here recently have Meanwhile, world reaction 1545 Naw Jersey A v e . , N.W. agreed to convene tbe sec- programs. to tbe trial of tbe freedom ond African-Asian confer387-9804 fighters, continues to mount ence of tbe Bandung-type OPEN 24 HOURS against South Africa governnext year in an African capWASHINGTON, D.C. ment. Aficans and Asians ital, city. VISIT call for a moritorium on tbe THE SISTER'S RESTAURANT murder of blacks inside tbe HOME COOKED MEALS Selection of tbe exact site Nazi-like state. S P E C I A L I Z I N G IN BEEF S A U S A G E Your Furniture Can Be bas been left to tbe OrganizaST. NEWARK, N J . If Sisulu or Mandela are tion of African Unity, which 1 4 5 W. MNNEV 6 » - 9 A 7 0 soon will a n n o u n c e its Props. Bro. Johnnie 4 X A Sis. G e n e v a X hanged, they declare, it will prove beyond a shadow of choice. Tbe upcoming sumOUR ADVANCED

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In the interest of freedom of expression and :;: free discussion, the Honorable Elijah Muham- i? mad. Messenger of Allah, has opened the following page, "Other People's Opinions," for :;: comments and criticism from organizations or :;: individuals on any phase of the Muslim proi: gram or on the plight of black America. (AV submissions must be signed and comments coni? fined to not more than 300 words).

W i l l Violence Help Cause? By P. L. Prattis (For the Associated Negro Press) Ever since the days of Christ, and before, the whites have been resorting to violence to win and hold their freeO P I N I O N S OF two direct-action civil with the two joined forces in this Chester dom. European history is a history of violence among all right's lecders, Stanley Branche, left, of rally. In the opinion of many observers of the tribes and nations. If the position of the American white Chester, Pa's struggle against de facto the civil right's scene, Branche, an exand the American Negro could he reversed, the whites school segregation and James Farmer, arparatrooper is one of the toughest of the would be violent and they would do nothing to please those ticulate spokesman for C.O.R.E., coincided newer action leaders. who counsel fearfully against violence. -•'^'Wheri the eolonists deterleadership must unify o u r ' that the t { m e had black people and teach our to f r e e themselves long - misguided people the jm the" yoke imposed by true nature of our enemy Great Britain, they went to and how to combat him. war. They did not wait for ^Kltgland to loosen the bonds Tbe racist enemy is not voluntarily. only an enemy of our black people, but also an enemy of I am against violence in too apparent in our political, our brothers in Africa, Asia pressing our cause, but I am By Conrad J. Lynn not against it in order to economic, s o c i a l , cultural land Latin America as well (New York City) and religious life. a« tbe United States and Euplease or mollify whites. If There must be a change, rope. If we black people of the situation in this country The Civil Rights Movement has come to an impasse. were c h a n g e d , I could be The leadershin of this movement has reached the END of therefore, in our leadership tbe United States, Africa, FOR V I O L E N C E . I am its usefulness. Now, there is only the continuatioft of the if we black people are to sur- Asia and Latin America are to be free; if we black peoagainst violence because all old approach of begging for what is actually our rights. vive in this racist society. The n e w leadership must ple and tbe rest of tbe worlds tbe odds are against us. All Tbe moral fiber of the enhave yisioh. It must practice are to enjoy peace, freedom, law enforcement is against tire United States is being leadership. Tbe black com- devoted cooperation with our equality and human dignity, us. completely destroyed by tbe Most violence so far has blatant hypocrisy of w b i t e munity and its c h u r c h e s hiack people at grass roots then this racist, oppressive, heen against w h i t e mobs political leadership and con- have felt keenly this lack of level. It must he willing to profit - making, war-thirsty and the police. The w h i t e fused, fearful black political leadership. This l a c k of stand up and FIGHT until enemy MUST be E X P O S E D leadership, moreover, is all the battle is won. This new and D E F E A T E D . mobs and the police have h e e ri responsible for violence. When Negroes sing land pray for freedom in BirT H E H O N O R A B L E E L I J A H mingham or Montgomery, the w h i t e mob jeers and taunts. The police immediately turn their dogs against the praying Negroes, n o t . . Mightier Than The Sword! A Message of Truth against the white mob. The (TIMES LISTED ARE LOCAL) By A U B R E Y L a B R I E mob of whites is never dispersed. It is the Negro who (Los Angeles, Calif.) TIME AREA STATION DIAL, K C DAY LISTEN to eeks his rights who must be ATLANTA — G R I F F I N , G A W E R D 860 SUN. 5 : 0 0 P.M. I would like to address •restrained. A T L A N T I C CITY — V I N E L A N D , N. J W D V L 1270 SUN. 3:00 P.M. these brief remarks to tbe BALTIMORE, M D W S I D 1010 SUN. I 2 : J 0 P.M. No wbite is going to be article, "Should We H a v e 1570 7 : 3 0 P.M. B I R M I N G H A M , A L A XERF SUN. punished because of bis vio- Obeyed Booker T . ? " by Gor- Mr. 93.9 SUN. 6:30 A . M . C H I C A G O — E V A N S T O N . ILL W E B H - F M lence toward us. The man don B. Hancock (Muhammad 1330 SUN. 7:00 A . M . C H I C A G O — E V A N S T O N , ILL W E A W who allegedly shot Medgar Speaks, April 24, 1964). C O L U M B U S . G A W C L S 1580 8:30 P.M. SUN. Evers bas gone through two XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. Making hindsight judg- MUHAMMAD D A L L A S , T E X A S trials to mistrials and now ments is too easy and shows H O U S T O N . TEXAS XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. J A C K S O N , MISS XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. walks tbe streets a free man. poor scholarship. Tbe fact KANSAS CITY, M O XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. Had a Negro been in tbe that Mr. Hancock does this Every Week LITTLE R O C K , A R K XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. place of Beckwitb, be long doesn't mean that be is in LOS A N G E L E S , C A L I F . . K A P P - F M 93.5 SUN. 8:00 P . M . ago would have paid tbe pen- error. His mistake lies in tbe M I A M I — FT. L A U D E R D A L E , FLA . W F A B 990 1:00 P.M. SUN. W M I E alty for such a crime. 1 140 6:30 A.M. SUN. assumption that "we didn.'t On the Radio MM OI ANMR IO—E F, T . L AL .A U. DV.E R D A L E , F L A XERF 1570 7 : 3 0 P.M. SUN. So I am against violence, obey Booker T . " NASHVILLE, T E N N XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. not b e c a u s e it is the preN E W O R L E A N S , L A XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. A little closer examiaation scription for freedom which of history would show'bim Station N E W Y O R K , N. Y . — N E W A R K , N. J W B N X 1380 6 : 3 0 P.M. SUN. ' 9 : 3 0 P.M. N E W Y O R K , N . Y . — N E W A R K , N. J . W W R L 1606 FRI. whites have u s e d . I am that tbe majority of "Negro O K L A H O M A CITY, O K L A XERF 1570 7 : 3 0 P.M." SUN. against it because, at this educators" did obey Booker 10:30 A . M . SUN. 1440 PHOENIX, ARIZ KWBX time, I do not believe it is T. However, obeying Booker SUN. 106 6:30 P.M. W A M O - F M In Your Area P I T T S B U R G H , P A I'hat will help us most. T. wasn't tbe problem. For 990 SUN. 5:00 P.M. R I C H M O N D — P E T E R S B U R G , VA W A N T 1570 7 : 3 0 P.M. tbe great masses of black SAN A N T O N I O , TEXAS XERF SUN. SiOOiTM. 1450 SUN. S A N F R A N C I S C O — O A K L A N D , C A L F K S A N people then (and now), tbe Listed Fisk U. 98 Years Old 7:00 A M. S E A T T L E — T A C O M A , W A S H K M C 1360 SUN, Fisk University of Nash- big problem was tbe scuffle ST. L O U I S , M O XERF 1570 7:30 P.M. SUN. to acquire daily bread and to ville, Tenn., was opened to T U S C A L O O S A , A L A . XERF 1570 8 : 3 0 P.M. SUN. avoid incurring tbe wrath of educate Negroes on April 20, TYLER, TEXAS XERF 1570 SUN. 7 : 3 0 P.M. Here . . . Ku Klux klanners. W A S H I N G T O N , D. C W O O K 1340 $Un. 4:45 P . M . 1866.

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This is the question asked most frequently by both the whites and the blacks. The answers to this question I shall state as simply as possible. 1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom. 2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color. 3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized 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 America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own. 5. We want freedom for all Believers Islam now held in federal prisons. We warn freedom for all 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 tbe freedom to accept_an^jeet-b€ingseparated from tjj^lav'e'master's children and establisira 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 tbe police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout tbe United States. We believe that tbe Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in wbite courts receive justice in accordance with tbe laws of tbe land — or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty. 7. As long'is we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under tbe laws of tbe 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 America become rich and powerful, that so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief, charity or live in poor bouSes. 8. We want the government of tbe United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of tbe land. 9. We want equal education — but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on tbe condition that tbe girls be sent to women's, colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers. Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. Tbe 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 tbe way of righteousness, de-

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cency and self respect. 10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want tbe religion of Islam taught without binderance or suppression. These are some of tbe things that we, tbe Muslims, want for our people in North America.

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1. WE B E L I E V E in the One God Whose proper Name is Allah. 2. WE B E L I E V E in the Holy Qur an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God. 3. WE 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 lib that mankind will not be spared by the falsehoods that have been added to it. 4. WE B E L I E V E in Allah's Prophets and tbe Scriptures they brought to tbe people. 5. WE B E L I E V E in tbe resurrection of tbe dead—not in physical resurrection—but in mental resurrection. We believe that tbe so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first. Furthermore, we believe we are tbe peo-

ple of God's choice, as it bas been written, •that God would choose tbe rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than tbe so-called Negroes in America. We believe in tbe resurrection of tbe righteous. 6. WE B E L I E V E in tbe judgement; we believe this first judgement will take place, as God revealed, in America. . . . 7. WE B E L I E V E this is tbe time in history for the separation of tbe so-caljed Negroes and tbe so-called wbite Americans. We believe tbe black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that be should be freed from tbe names imposed upon bim by bis former slave masters. Names which identified bim as being tbe slave master's slave. We believe that if wj are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names — the black peoples of tbe earth. . , 8. WE B E L I E V E in justice for all, whether in God or not; we believe as otbers, 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 rtmerican cii-izens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation. 9. WE B E L I E V E that the offer of inte(Continued on Page 22)

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j|was just one of thousands of wfomen of the country whose blood, sweat and tears helped lay the foundation for Kenya's long fight for freedom. "Women have played their part in every aspect of the freedom struggle," said Margret Kenyatta, daughter of Kenya Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. As workers, petty traders, farmworkers—through every phase of the fight—women, she said, con_tributsd--phySically, materially and morally." Even young African girls

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under age were impri.sonrd and many were sentencea to death for helping freedom fighters in the forests and villages. In the days before Harry Thuku — whose leadership marked the beginning of tbe period of political awakening for Kenyan Africans — women cooked, nursed and generally cared for the warriors fighting for survival against tbe British war of genocide. The records show that thousands of women built mud and wood buildings— churches, schools and living quarters. They c a r r i e d stones from the quarry to help build the Kenya Teachers College in Githunguru.

. Rebecca Njeri, president bf^ the Women's League and a woman of ' remarkable leadership abilities, mobilized a vast army of women to win support for tbe college. She organized women's dances and sports throughout Kenya in order to raise funds to build schools and offices and lubricate tbe cogs Kenya's freeconsist grindir dom. ie's Rebecca Njeri and Sara

DAKAR, Senegal — A unified liberation army,' known as "The People's Revolutionary Forces," has been organized by the African Party f o r the Independence of Guinea and Cape V e r d e (PAIGC), two areas in Western Africa still under Portu-.jue&e control.

Sarai. one of tbe djnamos in )t*>. tbe Women's League, were ' imprisoned with other militant women In tlje 1950s. Sara Sarai bad been presenting tbe views of wornen in tho City Council of Nairobi. "The women of . Kenya have played their full part in bringing tbe country forward," Miss Kenyatta said, •Tt Is remarkable how these women, many of whom had nevter been to sehoeir~ had this spirit of determination to develo^'the country and build a brighter future for their children." Their spirit of devotion to tbe freedom fight is expressed in t h e i r dances, songs a n d entertainment. Through their songs they have given encouragement, advice, praise and criticism. "Tb'ese songs baye. helped to educate tbe masses in the path of liberation, in tbe ' shedding of fear and in tbe attainment of tbe courage that brings victory," she pointed out. A TEACHER of revolurion is the way of Madame Eunike Ghana President Kwame Adafunu, President of the Lome branch of the Union of Women Nkrhntafr-jsa^:, the powe* of of Togoland, was described by the white colonist. A mother Afrlcah V^o*^^^! the free- c nd a fighter iFor independence, Madame Adafunu is one of dom struggle ^I^Wtf never the driving farces behind her country's struggle for universal be underestimated. cducction and a higher standard of living.

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up America with their slaves. We do not believe that America will ever 'be able to furnish enough jobo for ber own millions of imemployed, in addition to jobs for tbe 20,000,000 black people as well. 10. WE B E L I E V E that We who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which takes tbe lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us tbe necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for. 11. WE B E L I E V E our women sbould be

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gration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-;p^rT-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, 5ir~of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation. If tbe wbite people are trutbful about their professed friendship toward tbe socalled Negro, tbey can prove it by dividing

respected and protected as tbe women of other nationalities are respected and pro• tected. 12, WE B E L I E V E that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited ".Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims. We believe further and lastly that Allah |is God and besides HIM t?"J!!?^is no- God and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we ali can live in peace together.

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HARTFORD, CONN. SUN. 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 37

359 W. BARTGES ST. AKRON, OHIO BL 3-4711 THURS. & FRI.-8 P.M.

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MILWAUKFE, WIS. FR 2-5733

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«, F R F 8 P . M

RI 9-/309 SUN. 2 P.M.

MOSQUE NO. 4 1519 FOURTH ST., N.W WASHINGTON 1, D.C. WED.

MOSQUE NO. 2S

257 S. ORANGE ST. 622-9021 WED.

MOSQUE NO. 7-B (LONG ISLAND) J054)3 NORTHERN BLVD. HA »-8»15 CORONA, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. SUN , WED, & fRI.. 8 P.M."

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ST 3.8*35

SUN... W E D . S. FRi. 8 P .M.

MOSQUE NO. 20

1 138 5. BROADWAT CAMDEN, N.J. 983-9459 WED. & FR!. 8 P.M. SUN. 2 P.M.

NEWARK, N.J.

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MOSQUE NO. 27 5606 S. BROADWAY ST. LOS ANGELES 37, CAL. WED.

MOSQUE NO. 7-C (BROOKLYN) N.Y.

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& F R I , 8 P.M. SUN.

2 P M.

MOSQUE NO. 35

511-A EAST 4th ST., 2nd fl. WILMINGTON. DEL. WED.

8 P.M. S U N . 2 P.M..

MOSQUE NO. 26

1872 POST ST.

S t N FRANCISCO Fl 6-9966 WED, & FRI. 8 P.M. — SUN. 2 P.M.

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