Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City University of New York recognizes no such freedom. In the last month Hunter College has made public a decision to refuse to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Queens College has vetoed student invitations to Black Muslim leader Malcolm X and to Benjamin J. Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; and Brooklyn College has put off a scheduled speech by State Assemblyman Mark Lane, because he had been arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi...
...York Times or circulated petitions of protest among their colleagues. Perhaps they have been too busy worrying about their research, their students, Cubs or bomb shelters to take an active part in an academic freedom controversy. Or perhaps, having observed the indifference with which Black Muslim, Communist, and National Review speakers have been received at Harvard, they dont think the issue is worth the trouble...
...feel that this implication may not be so much a malicious attempt to malign an Afro-American protest movement as a poorly conceived article stemming from gross ignorance about the movement. Since Malcolm X, a militant Muslim leader, has openly declared that Lincoln's book is a fair representation of his movement and since Lincoln has almost singlehandedly tried to bring the truth about the Muslims to the American public in the face of bitter attacks against the Muslims in white newspapers, Negro newspapers, Time, and now the CRIMSON, there would be no reason for the movement to prevent Lincoln...
James Laue 3G makes a different kind of mistake. Instead of ignoring an issue, he fabricates one. Thus, in an otherwise informative article on the Black Muslim movement, he blames the "mass media" for white indifference to the plight of the American Negro. As the editors of Comment suggest, it is just "glib" to scream at the press for the ills of society...
...Cowards Don't Go to Jail." When most wardens detect prison recruiting, they clap the hard-core Muslims into solitary or transfer them to other prisons. "There was a time when they tended to congregate in the yard," says Warden George Goodman of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, "but we quickly stopped that. We may have nipped a potentially serious problem in the bud, but I cannot be sure." Oftentimes, recruiting goes right on even when the Muslim leaders are segregated. An office worker at Breathedsville was recently exposed as a Muslim. He had managed...