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100-5698 . BEY also. exhibited to agents the Constitution of the organization frem which the following cxcerpts are taken: “ "Al] members while making a public speech must not use any assertien against the American flag er speak radically against the church or any member of any organized group, because we are to teach love, truth, peace, freedom, i and justice™, "With us all members must proclaim their nationality and we are Leaching our beople their nationality and their Divine Creed that they may know that they a part and partial of this said government, and know that they are not Negroes, Colored Folks, Black People or Ethiopians, because these names were given to slaves by slave holders in 1779 and lasted until 1865 during the time of slavery, but this is a new era of time now, and all men now must proclaim their free national name re", y» Nothing subversive was noted in the Constitution. uy Likewise innocueus were the rules and reryulgti gani- b7c zation as appeared in a teokiet furnished to agents which booklet also cantained the enrollment or registration of all divine ministers of the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Moorish Holy Temple of Science, fer the year 1934, and also a list cf the "Sheiks and Sheikesses" for the same year. These names are not boing set. out here in view of the probability that a jater list has been obtained by other field offices.uy tr sidings "Koran Questions for hoorish Americans" was alse by - ebtained and this pamphlet as well as the Rules and Regula- tions, Constitutien, and the August 1942 copy of the “Moorish Voice" are being retained in the Richmond Field Office file for pwssible future references wm The celony censists of a large building which has the appearance of a Moerish Temple, three or four other buildings constructed of cencrete blocks, two er three mud chinked cabins, and numereus tents. Some twenty or thirty negroes were observed. The men wore red fezzes and the women red turbans, vw Approximately ene-fourth of a mile beyond the colony was located a "beester" station of the american Telephone & Telegraph Company, which is a oak a) red brick building appa vent wes informed by bad Agent exhibited to a above-mentioned copy of the "Meorish Voice, and che state mit she felt cortain that was tho publica- by tion which was mailed out each month by the organizatien, as the Parcel Post packages appeared to be exactly the same Size. uv ~8- eS ~ . * CONTE Beige) ree OE Sere FERS meee hs ne SOR IE a ee a Lee gee LT SR aR HT RT MM FN AST