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5percent — Part 1
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Tupted by boys who stood at
m moments and
shouted at teachers:
“You blue-eyed white devil!
Youd burn!"
If the teacher was Negro.
the boys shouted, “You slave!
You'll die!"
The disorder spread
throughout the school,
cording to the report, with
gangs of the bors roaming
halis, insulting and threaten-
ing teachers and assistants
who were patrolng the halls
anc beating non-Five Per-
centers outside the school.
Ther added to the general
disorder in classes by refusing
to answer to their names and
demant © be addressed by
Muslim names.
Both teachers and students
Were terrified by the threats:
and disorder and their terror
was heightened by two in-
cidents of violence. Within)
the first two weeks of schooi,
8 male teacher was beater. by}
tudent anc a female teach.
er was struck by an intrude:
identified in the report as
Pave Percenter.
Both the essailants are
knowr, to have beer. arrested,
Me, Deeg acknogledged that
erder to continue his life, the
Teport stated.
Board of Education sources
indicated the report was be-
ing withheld because of some
of the statements of opinion
in it.
The reference may have
been to an impassioned para-
graph which termed the Five
Percenter philosophy “diabol-
ical,” said it was aimed at the
destruction of every ‘“desir-
able institution” of Harlem.
and accused the group of
combining brainwashing and
terror.
‘The report said that after
the youth was killed other
Five Percenters threatened *
violence to non-members.
behed-sebmitted a report, but
Tefused to release it.
Teachers at the school say
that the youths called non-
“Pork-eaters” and
pork. Teachers were told by}
the Board of Education
make notes of the outbursts,
but some of them, especiall:
Negro teachers living in Har-|
lem, were afraid of reprisals
outside the school.
The Five Percenters are}
followers of @ man nam
Clarence (Puddin') Smith,
who calls himself “Allah.”
‘They are satd to believe he is
God. He has been in jail
since he was errested in #
disturbance in early June, Several “pork-eaters” brought
but the members insist that Weapons from their homes to
he stil! is God and that, as defend themselves on the way
his followers, they cannot be t0 school. Ther checked their
ed. weapons with the principal
The report said that when When they arrived.
a l5-year-old student and | The report added that the
member of the Five Percent- Five Percenters undoubtedly
ers was killed as he and have adult leaders and that
other members fought with there is evidence the group
an edult on a playground in receives funds and advise
8t. Nicholas Homes, his “from outside the United
friends shouted: “Get up, States.”
You're not dead. We can't The report said that the.
die." incidents came to an end
The boy was dead, how- after the first two weeks of j
ever. and his friends gave his school and that 14 arrests
Muslim name to a recruit in had been made.
Teachers at choo!
agreed that the disorder:
ceased, but said the attitudes
which caused them are still
apparent in the Five Per-
center students.
They believe the end of
the disorders was brought
about by five-day suspensions
issued to students who tn-
sisted on being called by
Muslim names, the arrests
and the stationing of a po-
Uceman st the school to
patrol the halis.
A board spokesman sald
there have been 12 to 15 ar-
Tests at the school this year,
not all of them Five Percent-
ers, ter, five-day suspensions
and two full suspensions.
Some teachers believe there
may be further disorders
pending. “We may be in the
eye of the storm,” one of
them said.
Some police sources say
they believe the group has
become quiet in recent weeks
because most of its leaders
have been arrested on one
charge or another, but they
say the group still exists and
~ ve that new leaders
are moving insert
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