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he S POLICE STATE ic ee he Thon, right after that, onc of the okier fae confided to me a personal prob- fem that Sister Betty X was having. When RY _,. festes Betty X had tokd her foster parenis, Pio "tito were financing her education, that 7 Se was a Muslim, they had given her a * “choice: keave the Muslims, or they'd Cut * Jal ber nurting schoo! financing 7 got to turning it over in my mind “Whal would happen if} just showld hap sometime, | to amnaybe think ree bo docked, at myactf. wien I realized “what 1 was thinking, } quit going an- etound Sister Betty X. or aqywhere | Sroniid be. Betause she sure “+ Gag poz we buve any Chanor to em “tka oe hed heard to aay wean trading, fike, “1 told that chumo ‘Ger * Fost" I'd had too much of ail kinds of experience to make a man very caupous., Wamead, when I visited him in Chicago * (hat month, that ] was thinking about a But | tokd The Honorable Elijah Mu- | ea rothing for hes to thank wher it wat PARTS Tg haere ee Ss TE See Cee Mutemees ne an On the fourteenth of Jantary: ios, . Tuesday. we had driven out to Lansing, Mich., where my brothes Phuilbert lived. ‘We got the necessary bhood seu, then the license. Then we went ro the justice of the peace An old hunchbecked white devil per- formed the wedding. And all of the wit- Tees were devil, Where you are sup posed to say all those “I do's,” we did. They were all standing therc, smiling and watching ¢very move. The old devil said, “| Pronounce you man and wife,” and T got her ont of there. All of that Hollywood stuff! Like these women want- 2a cen 410 peck them up and carry them ‘@crow: thresholds, and samc of them weigh toore than you 60.1 doc't Raow - “bow many marriage dreakupe aren't caueed by these movie- and television addict women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and danc- ing-—-then gettmg mad when a poor, wcraggkedy husband comes in tired and Christmas Day of 1960. Then, Dyssah ‘liyas” & Arabic for was bora i a. * 2 thing i Batty’ Mudian word. - about us Muslims, fast about the Gent” that we were starting to pul on our first big mass rallies. Now this book's tithe was Black Muslims in America, And we never could get that “Black Muslim” mame die lodged. Later Mr. Muhammad directed “ wery sericus mep. He smiled when be sweaty from working like a dog all day, heard what it was Mr. Muharamad sed looking for some Food. that he'd like to mect this sister. We lived for the next two-and-a-half Fhe Nation by this time was financially years i Queens, New York, sharing a that we would admit the white press. Fruit of Islam men thoroughly searched them, “as everyone else was searched—thear and whatever cise they carried. We : ‘Spore for different inatructor to Chicago to attend the © able enough that the expenses could be house of two small apartments with Brother Joba Ai and his wife. He's the . #Abonal sooetary in Chicago. ‘Attilah, our oldest daughter, was born Mosque No, 2 women's clisses, dn November, a Shes named for State Building,” I guarantee you thet in}, # watched. Our telephones were tapped. - 8° 7 seid on my home telephone right soday, “Tar potas to bored the Eateg”