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age File (14-39 Scicnec Tompic. Littie is kmomm of Drew Ali's early history. He is reputed te have been an expressman in Newark, New Jersey, where he ig said to have founded the first Moorish-American Science lemple as early as 1915. “Lrev's main contention was that the people commonly known in America as negroes are of Moorish descent and thus Asiatics. Z£ct six of his 'Divinc Constitution and By-La.s" reads: ee oo all menbers ttust declarsc their nk = wee 1 Lae ted leds Us Reh AL a eM kh ke bw SLT vy kW be and their Divine Creed that thet may Ime that they are a part and partial (sic) of this anid fovernment and that they are aot Negroes, Colored Folks, Elack Feople or Ethiopians, because these namcs were .iven te slaves by slave-holdcrs in 1779 and lasted until 1865 during the time of slavery, but this is a new era of time new, and all men must preelaim their fre: neational name to be rceognizede by tho governmont in which thoy live and the nations of tho oarth, this is tho reason why Allah the Groat God of the Universe orcained hedlc Drow Ali, the prophet, to rcedoam his pooole from thcir sinful weys. The Moorish-— @émoricons arc the descendants of the ancient }oabitcs who inhcrited the Northwestern and South- wastorn shorcs of Africa.’ cephct hoble Dre: Ali @id not dmmodiotcly rally many -disciplosto—_ Penner. the Meorish star and eroasctnt on a Siold of red. But er ae | aptee Ee Grit ah 2 etd rc his > ‘a ¢ persisted, and at length was ablo to set up permancnt head-~ Quartcrs. Though somi-litcratc, ho possossed an cloguont tonguc, a persuasive manncr, ond o native shrowdness which encblod him to sway tho poor and unicttercd people vho listened to hime Most of thom romcmbercd the race ritte of 1919; all of them had ox+ pericneed discrimination and other wrongss Drcv Ali wos .offor- ing thom pride ef racc and dignity. In 1927 a successful conven tion encouraged Drow ali to cxpond his prosclytising activitics to othcr citicsus "Drew Ali had written and published his ‘Xoran,' a slim pamphlet consisting of a curious mixture of the Mohammedan holy book of . the same name, the Christian Bible, and anecdotes of the life of oo ae