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wean with local authorities. In 1934, the Detroit Board of Education noted that children of certain Negro families were being withdrawn from the public schools. An investigation which was instituted by the Board revealed that the families involved were members of this cult and that _ | the children missing from the schools were attending the University of BE Istam, a school which had been established by the cult. An immediate examination of the school 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 . . a on a et are Oe . attending. Not only was the school inadequate, but the subject matter which was taught appeared to be of a fantastic nature quite outside the realities of life.” Attempts which were made to close the school 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 "in adjusting the underlying economic and social problems of other Negro families of the same class in order that Ne NETL EE EO mR omeR Ter - met tte oe eens 2 ae the movement may not spread; and to ignore temporarily the irritating AX * — C t e i ¥ t t 4 ao 2 teem = epee nen a neta Ate . oe SN meee wpm es