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5percent — Part 1

280 pages · May 22, 2026 · Broad topic: Religion & Belief · Topic: 5percent · 280 pages OCR'd
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jem. Mr. Wingate sald he was! frightened for his own lite: divulge any details of the ovement.” ““I¢ I tell you too much about is organization, I'll be ‘the date Wingate.” he said. So he refused even to give: rent he was talking about a) young Harlem hate group’ the “Five Percenters.”! can- ed funder investigation, ‘Members of the group told the police they had adopted the; name “5S per centers” because! “85 per cent of the Negroes are| hike cattle, 10 per cent are Uncle irqms, and we are the 5 per cent lwo know what belongs to us.” ihe Police Department re-| comment when asked if ay. Wingate was serving as in. termediary between the police! jand the “Five Percenters.” ‘Growing Bapidly’ Mr. Wingate sald the move- ment. was “growing rapidly” land that “the lid may blow off| “Perhaps TH be called an alarmist.” he said, “so if you; want confirmation, you can calli some key police officials." He’ Imentioned, among others, Depu- Ity Chief inspector Harry Tay-| Hor, who he said had met with! representatives of the move- fment. Ins] night that Harlem was on the verge of racial violence’ “We not.” he said, “in a danger- pector Taylor denied last;Watts look like a tea part; ashington Préceedings |gate, all Whitey wants ts to keep us quiet.’ ‘wy said: ‘Never mind what —¥ 6:26 PM. until Monday noen. Foreign Affairs subcommit- YESTERDAY (Oct. 14, 1965) THE PRESIDENT Continued at Bethesda Na- Ambassador to the Soviet ; Union Kohler. tee received briefing trom . {Whitey wants. If Fruryo A¢t is c in better position to get funga- evist hogs Mateese Use of Funds Explained + During the summer there was val Hospital. ‘DEPARTMENTS & AGENCIES a tense moment, Mr. Wingate THE SENATE Defense department re- /Said. when “5,000 kids threat- Not in session. quested 45,224 draft quota for Finance Committee began hearings on suger. bill passed by the House yesterday. Internal Security subcom- mittee issued report on vir- tual elimination of churches and Roman Catholic schools in Communist Cuba. ! Civil Service Committee met on its version of the House- passed Federal pay tise DILL Korean War. “Agriculture Department an- nounced national allotment of 6 million acres for the 1966 crop of upland cot!on. SCHEDULED FOR TODAY (Oct, 15, 1965) President Johnson conva- lesces at Bethesda Naval Hos- pital. Senate meets at noon; House not in session, _Completed Congressional ac- |} NASA officials on Gemini tion on a $4.3 billion suppie- j VI orbital mechanics and ren- mental public Works appro- | dezvous hold news conference; pristions bil; adjourned et | 2 PM. THE HOUSE jat the National Urban League“‘crack down,” Mr. peinzate said gram that gave Harlem respite conference that Harlem was in but they remain defiart: ‘imminent peril of bloodshed: !BO¥S. : that in that event the disorders, move. ; December—biggest since the { ‘Let ‘em crack down, £ lened to break us asunder.” That twas when Haryou-Act had ‘fallen $400,000 behind in pay- ments,” the director went on. To keep faith with “the kids” jwho had been given job com- Imitments by 8 staff member. Mr. Wingate said: reached un and took the money, I didn't igive a continental what account iit came from.” .. The agency has been criticized itor “commingling” Federal and “elty grants. _ It would be “a lie” to suggest iany wrongdoing, Mr. Wingate . said, The books are not in dt- “der, he explained, simply te- fcause of ah emergency program sinvolving the payment of than- ‘sands of Harlem youths, 2 pri- rom a threatened “long hot :summer” of violence. “You think just because the ‘Mr. Wingate warned that if jong hot summer has ended and could spread to the Bedford-rtne public continued to “listen Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and to Rochester and other up-\. state cities, “I come to you with a deep, touch of fright in me." Mr. storted press” tguns” to contain Harlem. Wingate told the conference. He’, “1 ca" see bloodshed in Harlew: Cera to daca meeting with and then in Bedford-Stuyvesant, aigh-level poli with nd then Rochester and Syra- say: ‘That’ belie aigh-level police about an “omi- aD Ree eT a eenne ARE, uaES what I pelleve nous movement” of youths pre-" i pared to die. jsa 38 Deaths Recalled ia. the autumn chil] has begun to the asinine. tying and dic-, , ot RE, and Givvthat the tension, is over.” Mr. lit would have to rely on “naked munity is loaded with dynamite. “Wingate said, “but our com- kids don't give a raice my hand to God Mr. Wingate said the idea ‘for the emergency program "Later, at the news conference was suggested fo him Inst June ‘in another room, Mr. Wingate 7 by Senator Robert F. Ken- “There will either be a change said that he had talked to mem- nedy, Democrat, af New York. in the situation.” he said. “or!bers of the group at the start of By July 1 the program had you'll see something tha'll make'the the deeply sumer and had foun: suspicious He was referring to the Nej Killed last August. situation.” 5 rh ut Mr. Wingate told about leaders of poverty pro; Members of the movement: as follows: ‘Whitey (the white man) and riots in the Watts ghetto of Los of the white man’s intentions in Washington: ‘Roy ‘Angeles, where at least 33 were regarding Haryou-Act. He de- ministrative impossibili jscribed part of the conversation I replied id 4,000 youngsters and a staff about of 500. Mr. Wingate said: , “I'd been warned by friends ‘T can't tum mill en.’ rams know the police are about to’ “The, kids said: ‘Look. Win- ‘So we ran the program and
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