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5percent — Part 1
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‘rupted by boys who stood at .
_, moments, and
“you blue-eyed white devat
Youll burn!
“at the teacher was Negro, i
the Boys shouted, “You slave!
You'll diet” .
‘The disorder — spread
throughout the school, ac-
cording to the report, with
gangs of the boys roaming
halls, insulting and threaten-
ing teachers and assistants
who were patroling the halls
mad beating non-Five Per-
¢enters outside the schbol.
disorder in classes by refusing
to answer to their names and
démanding to be addressed by
Musi names,
iwere terrified by the threats;
;8nd disorder and their terror,
‘was heightened by two in-|
cidents of violence. Within|
ithe first two weeks of school,
‘a male teacher was beaten b:
*a student and a female teach.
ser was struck by an intrud
‘{dentified in the report, as
Five Percenter,’
i Both the aésailants ar
known to have been arrested,
eer acknogledged tha:
. outside ‘the school.
They added to the generel-
+ Both teachers and students 11
wesze matted a port but
the Board of Education
make notes of the outbursts,
but some of them, especi:
‘Negro’ teachers living in Har-
Jem,. were afraid ‘of Feprisals
The Five Percenters are
‘They are sald to believe he is
God. He has been in jail
since he was arrested in 9
disturbance in early June,
but-the members insist that
he still is ‘God and that, ag
his followers, they, cannot be
The report sala that whe
& 16-year-old “ student and
member of the Five ‘Percent-
ers. was killed as he: and
other members fought ‘with
an adult on s playground in
St. Nicholas Homes, his *
friends - shouted: “Get up:
youre not. dead. We ca
ond “boy hoi
ever, ont h ‘his ‘friends. gave his -
“Muslim name to. a recruit, iit - hi
ter ‘philosophy.
deal,” said it wax aime:
destruction ot every.
able institution” - of , Harlem,
and accused the- group -of . patrol ‘the:
fomblning brainwashing and *.
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