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Moorish Science Temple of America — Part 10
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F : ‘some general information to the effect that negroes in the vicinity
of St. James and Charity Streets, Richmond, Virginia, who attended
4 ,
nae a chur. ; re organizing a sect along the Mohammedan
. : bye lines, hat these negroes were very ignorant
Bo and that there appeared to one man who wis the leader and two
assistants who had full control of the group.
nt RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
f the Seaboard Finance Corporation, 200
North Sth Street, who has a pood knowledge of the iegroes in the vicinity
a an bac, of St. James and Charity Streets, was contacted, and he advised that he
YZ owe had heard nothing of a religion such as thit mentioned ubove but furnished
po ‘bod the names of the followi ivi i é whom
. ° i he knew be reliable:
These persons were conta
with negative results,
eames be eae caretaker of the
_ | Virgiida Boat Club, advised that he nad no knowledge of such a Mohammedan
movenent but stata that if there were such a thing it would be known to
of the Richmond Urban League.
of the Richmond Urban
emple is 2 Mohammedan group
ated that he recalled a
Leugue, advise
bac ? and is locat
; negre name a todge
ne et L d eard for the i i pniting::::
oo i pl be was of the opinion tha @ immbers of the cult.
that this cult is one of the many "store front" churches
which had sprung up among the colored people during the depression and
that since the negroes are employed full time they have no time to spend
on such religious frills and that he is of the opinion that the Moorish
Science Temple is no longer active.
::-<«.: the records of the cetail merehants
association against tne name of soorish Science Tem le with i:egative
“results.
aa .::-: Business Buresu, Central National
Bink Building, was contacted with nugative results.
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