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Moorish Science Temple of America — Part 3
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ae: when the colony had first 4
been establisne eemed tO be an epidemic of stealing in that part of -
the county, and he had gone out to the colony to talk with NELSON BEY about
it. He said that BEY was quite cooperative und told him that any time he wanted
to search any of the buildings in the colony he was liberty te. - ™
do so, and need not obtain any search warrant. was not able ;
to obtain any evidence that these negroes had stole
as he knew they were law abiding citizens who had no desire to overthrow the
white race and who had no contacts with any Japanese. w
b1v a Draft Board #1, Prince George County, advised '
that she had a number of registrations from the negroes. who comprised ine ;
Moerish-American Golony ni ao far as she knew they had all registered. She |
advised that FRED«-NELSO!. “BEY, the leader of the colony’, had registered April :
27, 1942, and the followiny description was obtained from his registration
ecard: ow
ame FRED NELSON BEY
Lente of birth January 27, 1890
Plsce of birth High Point, l. ©. t
Height 5to tt ‘ }
Eyes Brown
Hair Black
Complexion Light brown
Race . Boo eng
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Know oddress
also informed that one — aRY, F
e, Virginia, claimed to be a conscientious objector,
"The principles of my religion arc love, truth, pesee, freedom, ~
and justice™, He received his training "Yrom the hoorish Science Temple: of
America, Inc." He relies fer religious guidance on Brother C, AN BEY,
11047 Sedgwick Street, Chicugo, Illinois, who is head of the organization.
"At present, I am sacrificing my time und labor solely to the cause of ay
religion", The creed of his sect in regard to war was stated thusly: "The
Holy Koran says, ‘When a man ferns in thought or werd or devd anether man,
ha docs a wrong to Allaht My race is hoerish-American." He said his eccu-
pation consisted in farming on about twenty-P$ve seron of land, the number
who work on thin land being six. He yvave the names of FP. wiLoO BEY and
C. KIREMAN BhY as references, tA
1-A by the Draft Hoard and would be ordered to report ‘for his ohyeical exami=-
nation shortly. wy
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