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Moslem Survivor To
Recount Murder Details
By National Black News
Service
Washington -- (NBNS) -- One
of the two survivors of the
mass murders at the Hanafi
Moslem headquarters here
recounted the gory details of
the Jan. 18 incident in an
interview with newsmen last
week.
Almina Khaalis said she was
shot once in the head and left
for dead. Upon returning to
find her alive, the gunmen tried
to shoot her again. But, the
23-year-old woman said, their
weapons either misfired or
their aim was off. Mrs. Khaalis’
physician, Dr. Jesse Barber,
said she was struck by one
bullet which lodged in the right
side of her skull, causing her to
suffer a superficial wound that
resulted in a mild brain
contusion but no major
damage.
“With my head covered,”
Mrs. Khaalis recalled, “1 didn’t
know he was shooting me. 1
had never been shot before and
it felt like I was hit over the
head with something. ”
What commenced as “an
average afternoon,” Mrs.
Khaalis said, turned into a
nightmare. According to Mrs.
Khaalis, shortly after 2 p.m.,
her brother, Daud, answered a
knock at the door to find two
men inquiring about a $1
booklet prepared by her father,
Hanafi leader Hamaas Abdul
Khaalis.
Having received a big bill,
she said, Daud went upstairs to
get change. When he returned
he must have taken the safety
lock off, and the men pulled a
gun and forced their way in.
“One of the men came to
the kitchen door, pointed a
snub-nosed .38 revolver at me
and said, ‘This is a holdup,’ ”
Mrs. Khaalis said.
Then the residents of the
James Brown
Files Suit
Against
Knoxville For
One Million
Knoxville, Tenn - (NBNS) -
Soul Brother No. 1 James
Brown has filed a $1 million
civil rights suit against the city
of Knoxville in connection
with his arrest last December
11 following a concert at the
civic coliseum. Brown and two
of his aides were arrested after
the concert - Brown on
charges of disorderly conduct
and the aides with assaulting
the police officers and
disorderly conduct. Brown
claims that the defendants
deprived him of his
constitutional rights.
It was learned recently in
Augusta, Ga. that Brown’s
Aides, Bobby Dyers and
Freddy Holmes have filed also.
Augusta Attorney Albert G.
Ingram filed for $500,000 for
compenatory and punitive
damages on behalf of the aides.
Named in the suit were the
City of Knoxville, Tenn.,
Phillip Bowling, Kyle
Testerman, Duane Ausetts, Joe
C. Fowler, and Preston V.
Phillips.
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home were bound and forced
to lie on the floor and six more
men entered. While some of
the men searched the house,
others took three of the
residents into the basement.
“Within seconds,” Mrs.
Khaalis recalled, “they brought
down my baby, and Bibi (her
father’s second wife) and one
of her babies. They had a
stretch sock tied around Bibi’s
eyes so she couldn’t see.”
Mrs. Khaalis said the
gunmen asked for her father by
name and inquired as to why
he had written letters
criticizing the Black Muslims.
She said they asked, “ ‘Why
didn’t you try to stop him?
Didn’t you know this was
going to happen?’ ” She said
she replied that “my father
knows what is best,” and was
told, “ ‘Oh yeah? Well, here’s
what’s best for you.’ ”
“The next thing 1 knew,”
Mrs. Khaalis said, “my head
felt very numb and my ears
were ringing. 1 didn’t realize
until later that I’d been shot.”
Then, Mrs. Khaalis said she
heard her 10-year-old brother,
Rahman, say that he would
cooperate with the gunmen.
“After all,” she said, “they had
guns.” After killing Rahman,
the gunmen returned to where
Mrs. Khaalis was and said,
Local Teacher
Authors Book
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Rev. George Brightharp
The reverend George
Brightharp, a North Augusta
native, is the author of a new
book entitled THE DAMNED
ONES - AND THE
UNDAMNED. The book was
published February 15, 1973.
The 28-year-old minister has
taught history at Butler High
School, in Augusta, for the
past 3 years. He also taught
political science at T. W. Josey
High.
Brightharp said he wrote the
book because he became
“overly concerned” about poor
people and Black people, and,
he added, “I tried to react in a
meaningful way.” He sees a
need for Blacks and non-Blacks
to know the cultural
contributions of their
counterparts. One chapter in
the book proposes solutions to
the financial plight of Black
colleges.
He says that $lO per year,
per man, will “keep our
schools top flight.”
Brightharp is the pastor of
the Monmerenci Baptist
Church in Monmorenci, S.C.
He also pastors St. Paul in
Louisville, Ga.
In his book he deals with the
relationship between social
justice and Christian love.
Although Americans profess a
love everybody attitude we
practice, "Love your neighbor
as long as he looks like you.”
According to Brightharp, the
book tries to place fight on
hypocrisy and suggests
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“Damn, she’s still breathing.”
Mrs, Khaslis, who said she was
shot twice more in the head,
did not lose consciousness so
she held her breath.
“1 felt 1 was trembling so
that they’d have to see 1 was
still alive. I held my breath. I
prayed to Allah. 1 didn’t think
it would work. But it did,” she
said.
Finally, after 15 more
minutes of waiting, Mrs.
Khaalis said she couldn’t stand
it any longer and I got up. I
wiped the blood off my face
and began looking for the
others.”
In the afternoon of the
shootings, Mrs. Khaalis found
that in addition to her three
brothers being slain, four
babies including her own
ranging in age from 9 days to 3
years had been drowned in the
bath tub.
After getting up from the
closet floor, she said she heard
her father calling from
downstairs and shouted,
“Father, Father, they shot us.
It was Elijah’s people. It was
over the letters.”
(Hamaas Khaalis has
contended that he sent letters
criticizing the Black Muslim
religion and denouncing the
honorable Elijah Muhammad,
the Muslim leader, as a fraud to
meaningful avenues of escape.
The book sells for $5.00 and
can be purchased from The
Book Corner on Broad Street.
Other book stores are also
expected to carry the book.
Still a bachelor, Rev.
Brightharp lives in Trenton,
S.C. He is a graduate of A&T
University where he received
the Bachelor and the Master’s
degrees. He has done further
study at Benedict College and
the University of Georgia.
He is the son of the late Rev.
and Mrs. G.W. Brightharp.
Farah Slacks
Picketted At
J.B. Whites
By R.L. Oliver
A lone pickett wearing signs
that state, “BE ON YOUR
GUARD - PLEASE DON’T
BUY FARAH SLACKS SOLD
AT J.B. WHITE’S” stands a
lone vigil in protest on Broad
Street in front of White’s store.
When asked his name he
requested anonymity, but he
gave one of several hundred
handbills being passed out. The
handbills read: Attention
Shoppers - Armed Guards and
Police Dogs used against
peaceful Farah strikers.
Farther down the bill,
details the plight of three
thousand workers in gaining a
union of their own choice, and
a strike is in effect against the
world’s largest manufacturer of
men’s slacks, the Farah
Company, to gain that right.
The strike is being
conducted by the
Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
The leaflet states in small
print at the botton that it is
directed soley to the consumer
public.
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
ministers around the country
and has accused the Muslims of
committing the crime. The
Muslims have denied the
allegations.)
Within 13 days, Almina
Khaalis had returned home,
but the other survivor, Bibi
EDITORIAL
The Segregated Mind
The CSRA Law Enforcement Officers met last
Thursday and the main topic of discussion was the
recent rapes and assaults upon “white females in our
area.” The chairman of the organization called on Black
leaders and “law abiding citizens” of the Black
community to step forward and assist in the
apprehension of those responsible for the recent rapes
and assaults.
We feel that the Law Enforcement Officers’
chairman, Walter Newman, Police Chief in North
Augusta, is one of the few local law enforcement
officials who is honest and broad minded enough to
enter into serious, meaningful discussion on racially
sensitive subjects. Nevertheless, we feel that this appeal
to the Black Community to stop the rape of white
women is insulting. Even at this day in history, it is very
clear that the concern of local law enforcement is to
protect WHITE women. Well, what about OUR women?
Rape in the Black community is just as common as
murder. Black and white men have been raping Black
women for centuries, and there has been no appeal from
any law enforcement agency to stop the rape ot Black
women, and in some cases, they have participated in the
rapes themselves.
The law enforcement officers and the world must
understand that Black men love and respect Black
women just as much as white men love and respect
white women. And before we go trying to protect
anybody else’s women, we are going to see that our own
women are protected.
Interestingly, the law enforcement officials called for
a revamping of the entire arrest and justicial system,
and asked why people who have been sentenced to at
least 50 years in jail arc back walking the streets. I his is
a very valid point. We think that the answer lies in the
racially segregated minds of those in positions ot
responsibility.
History has shown that Blacks and whites get little or
no time in jail for killing, raping or otherwise assaulting
Black people. However,’Blacks have been historically
executed for raping or killing a white person.
The law has protected whites and punished Blacks.
But there have been a tew changes recently. Blacks
have begun to rape white women and there is no legal
death penalty.
Nineteen year old Lendell Hunter has frightened
white people in this area like no one Black individual
perhaps ever has. Hunter has been convicted of three
rapes, kidnap, assault and burglary. He was serving three
life sentences plus 99 years before his recent escape
from Alto Prison. Since his escape in December, he has
been charged with the murder of a white woman and
the brutal beating of her grandson. Now, for whites,
Hunter is really dangerous. There is no death penalty; he
is already serving three consecutive life sentences; and
now he has allegedlj killed and possibly molested a
white woman. He has nothing to lose.
The Black community also views Hunter as
dangerous, but for a different reason. Most Blacks fear
Hunter because we believe that he is mentally deranged
and should have been sent to a hospital instead of a jail
in the first place. It is ironically contrasting that when
the mayor’s nephew shot both of his parents last week,
he was sent to the Veterans Administration Hospital for
psychiatric treatment. There isn’t anything necessarily
wrong with that. But why don’t Blacks get the same
consideration?
We agree with the law eniorcement officials that the
entire system needs to be studied and revamped, but we
suggest that they begin by dealing with the injustices
produced by the segregated thinking of segregated 1 minds.
We stand firmly in favor ot justice, law and order. But
before there can be order, before there must be justice,
the law just PROTECT us as well as punish us.
Khaalis, remains hospitalized in
serious condition.
In the interview last week,
Hamaas Khaalis said, “It’s the
strength Allah gives her. She
wasn’t meant to die. She is the
most beautiful. Allah meant
her to live.
Augusta, Georgia
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“Miss Bronze Augusta” contestants - (L-R) Chris McQueen, Margaret Dorsey,
Danice Byrd, Alfredia Rodd, Alesia Greenaugh, Celestine Williams.
Pageant Announced
As part of a concerned
effort to meet past due
overage-payments incidental to
building their church, the
Pastor, Rev. E. McKay Miller
and congregation of
Belle-Terrace United
Presbyterian Church on Golden
Camp Road, Augusta, is
sponsoring a gigantic
fund-raising project. The
project consists of six young
ladies, who will be crowned
“Miss Bronze Augusta,” by the
various church organizations
and a gala “Fashion Show” to
be presented on March 18,
1973. at the Terrace-Manor
School, Tate Road, Augusta, at
5:00 P.M.
The six “Miss Bronze
Augusta” contestants are Miss
Danice Byrd, sponsored by the
Mayor Newman Discusses
Augusta Transportation
By R.L. Oliver
Augusta Mayor, Lewis A.
Newman, stated emphatically
during an interview, “No doubt
about it, the city of Augusta
will own Augusta Coach
Company.
Mayor Newman stated, “The
Federal Government is not
freezing monies in regards of
Mass Transit Grants. The
Government wants to get
people riding public
transportation.
We plan to run a good
transit system. We also plan to
extend service out to industrial
areas. People have got to have a
way to get to work. This will
be for the people who live
within the city.”
Newman thinks the city will
profit financially from the
take-over. “I spoke with Mayor
Allen of Columbus, Georgia
regarding some of the transit
problems and he told me of
making an SIB,OOO profit on
one hand and a SIOO,OOO loss
in equipment damage.
However, if we can operate
them we will benefit. ”
Question: How will the
city takeover affect the present
bus drivers? I understand some
have been working nine and
ten years at $2.00 per hour.
Answer: Our minimum
wage for city employees is
$2.12 hourly, obviously we
would have to keep present
employees and they will be
upgraded. We want our drivers
to have pride in the new buses,
which by the way will be here
in six to nine months-we
expect to have some of the
new buses by the end of the
year.”
The Mayor also plans an
"Miss
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Miss Patricia Green was crowned USO 1973 Sweetheart
at the Sweetheart’s Ball Saturday night at the Augusta
USO. She was crowned by Miss Barbara Wehn, the 1972
Queen. Miss Green is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie
Green and a graduate of Paine College.
Bronze Augusta”
choir, Miss Margaret Dorsey,
sponsored by the Board of
Trustees, Miss Alesia
Greenaugh, sponsored by the
Special Projects Committee,
Miss Chris McQueen, sponsored
by the United Presbyterian
Women, Miss Alfredia Rodd,
sponsored by the Board of
Deacons, and Miss Celestine
Williams, sponsored by the
Session. The contest winner,
and Miss Bronze Augusta,”
will be judged by the
sponsoring organizations
fund-raising abilities.
Special guest models who
will particiate in the “Fashion
Show” include, Mrs. Tanya
Anderson, Miss Francine
Appling, Miss Jennifer Bennett,
Mr. Bill Dotson & Company,
Mrs. Ileen Buchanan, Miss
improved schedule. “We have
got to have reasonable
scheduling and we have got to
have a seven day schedule. I
think you ought to have a
March 1, 1973 No. 50
Eloise Curtis, Miss Linda
Dacus, Miss Tomorrow Giles,
Mr. Allen Green, Miss Janice
Riley, and Miss Valorie
Tillman, with music by the
Jazz Explorers, featuring Mr.
Jerry Harris, Mr. Joe Green,
and the children of the
Belle-Terrace Day Care Center.
Special raffle tickets for
beautiful prizes are being sold
by the congregation. Also the
raffle tickets will serve as
admittance tickets to the
fashion show. Anyone wishing
to participate in, or'contnbute
to, this worthwhile project is
asked to contact the Rev. E.
McKay Miller at the church
office or Mrs. Emma J. Bass,
the general program chairman
at 798-8167.
minimum run of twenty four
hours. And I would like to add
further that every run would
not be profitable, just a service
to the citizens of Augusta.”
