Education: University of Islam

Week by week during recent months Negro moppets have been disappearing in batches from Detroit's public schoolrooms. One day ten black pupils would be reported missing and the next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the...

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