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...Named "X." Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Poole, son of a Baptist minister, in Sandersville, Ga. on Oct. 7, 1897, later moved with his family to Detroit. One momentous day, he tells the faithful, he met one Fard Muhammad, who revealed himself to be "Allah on earth"-on earth, that is, just long enough to pick the "messenger" for his black-supremacy doctrine. Messenger Elijah dropped his "slave-master name" of Poole, took up the spiritual surname Muhammad (lacking religious surnames, his ministers just use "X"). He founded Temple No. i in 1931, but soon ran into difficulties...
...Named for an earlier Savannah, which was the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic, sailed Savannah, Ga. to Liverpool in 1819 in 29 days...
...Berrien County, Ga.. a moonshiners' ancient auto, capable of making a 147-m.p.h. getaway with a load of 200 gallons of corn liquor, was bought at auction by County Sheriff Walter Gaskins, who will use it to chase moonshiners...
...down with them and thereafter began an intensive study of race relations, which he kept up at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ga., where he went 6½ years ago. In 1957 and 1958 he was chosen to draft the Southern Presbyterian reports on race, and they were noted as the most liberal statements on the subject to have been issued by a predominantly Southern denomination...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...