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ane = pai cmcapeparmomnres eer ersaers & . een eetreremer ps gmmenreeer O dr eagagetenect 4 an Sb eg Sab as nse University of Islam, a school which had been established . . 2 Baath eee —w owe oe mee ne by the Cult. An immediate examination of the school wee re Te Samm ates ct 0 AIS RE . ree > ~ vant po a iren eee oe 7 was made and it revealed that the “curriculum, the teaching staff, and the equipment were entirely inadequate to afford even the most rudimentary education for the colored children who were attending. Not only was the school inadequate, but the subject matter which was taught appeared to be of & fantastic nature quite outside the realities of life." Attempts which were made to close the schools by the enforcement of the school attendance laws resulted in strengthening the resistance of the Cult,causing it and the school to operate in secrecy. A final decision of the Board resolved to refrain from rigid enforcement of the attendance laws and to assist tin adjusting the underlying economic and social problems of other Negro families of the same class in order that the movement may not spread; and to ignore temporarily the irritating ‘bumptiousness' of this particular group.“ In 1954 information was received indicating that in the University of Islam various subjects are taught ranging -25-