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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-06-13
WV. C. A. News
BY IdelI G. Vertner

Eighteen Junior and senior Girl
Reserves enjoyed a weekend camp
at the Y. w. C. A. Camp on Balm
bridge Island. Games, conference
es and sports. Girls attending:
Marion Valley Lois Valley, Beatr-
rice Marshall, Jewel Wells, Jean
Shields, Norma Bash, Mary Wag-
gener, Ruby Buckner, Lulu Payne,
Esther Johnson, Guela Clayton,
Imogene Miller, Dolores Catlett,
Christine Hatcher, Clara McCurdy.
The Junior Girl Reserves an
nounce that the following persons
will serve as their officers for the
ensuing year: Marion Cousins,
president; vice president, Sylvia
Clayton; secretary, Lulu Payne;
and treasurerEdris Saunders.
The Girl Reserve Committee has
planned an interesting and con-
structive summer recreational pro-
gram for the summer months. The
program is:
Junior Girl Reserves
June 20, ping pong at Y. w. c.
A; JUNE 81, Breakfast, Lincoln
Park; July II, lawn party, Y. w.
c. A; July IS, Hike, Lake Bridge;
July 25, Beach Party, Seward
Park; August 1, Breakfast, Seward
Park; August 8, picnic, Green
Lake.
Senior Girl Reserves
June 25, breakfast, Lincoln
Park; July 16, ping pong, Branch;
July 80, hike, Lake Bridge; Aug
ust 6, Picnic, Seward Park; Aug
ust 81, beach, Alki.
A weekly archery class will be
given at the Montlake fieldhouse
each TUESDAY.
Two campships to Camp Balm
bridge were awarded this year.
Betty Ann Dean received the
award made by the Committee of
Management, while Dolores Catlett
of the Washington Junior Reserve
was the recipient of one that was
given by Mr.. E. G. Sears, Prin-
cipal of Washington School.
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HERE'S MORE ABOUT
Handwriting
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Out of Spokane, Wash, comes a
cry from youthful draftees: Labor
has the same right to be drafted
at $21 per month as youth. In a
speech before the House, Repre-
sentative Hatton w. Summers said
Before we do this job these
boys whom we are putting in uni
form will not be knocking off at
5; they may be standing the night
watches. We have just one line
of defense now, a thin line of bat
tleships that guard the shores.
That is all. Wheels of production
are not turning. Factories are 81
lent. Essential materials lie unfin-
ished while armies devastate the
world. We act like children. We
go to cocktail parties, we play the
horse races, we act like children
at play. We stop munition factor
les when the nation is facing the
greatest peril that it has faced
since it began to be a nation"
Labor, like blind Sampson may
so shake the pillars of this great
commonwealth that it may not on
ly destroy its own life but end
mans liberty for all time to come.
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During the past school term
Norman r. Howard has been a
member of the Central schools
band.
Mrs. Calvin Norwood left the
city last Monday evening to return
to her home in Terra Haute, In
diana. Preceding her departure,
Mrs. Norwood was the recipient of
many parties, and gifts from all
her friends.
Mr.. George Madix has returned
once more to his job at the Harvey
hotel while Mr.. Ellsworth Chris
ton has returned to Hands Bar
Der shop. Rev. A. L. Byrd has
been employed as night watch
man of the new Government Ar
senal being constructed in the CT
ty under the national defense pro-
gram. With the speed at which
the building is being created, the
job has all indications of being per-
manent.
Old Timers of the community
will be sorry to hear of the death
OF Sgt. Patrick Keys, age IL, who
died at the Fort Harrison Veterans
hospital last Tuesday morning. Flu
neral services were held Thursday
at $3.50 o'clock from Opp and Con-
rad Chapel. The burial was held at
Forestvale cemetery and the Am
erican Legion had charge of mil
itary services at the graveside.
1.-THE Eye" joins with T. w.
Hosch in hoping for the day when
! the "isms" become the "wasms."
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Her First Ride In An Auto
mobile"
Mrs. Grace Bond
Guitar Solo
a. 1.-TWO Guitars"
b. Melody of Old Songs"
Billy Bowers
acc. by Mabel w. Garthley, teacher
Reading
Never Too Late To Begin"
Elizabeth McKettrick
Reading
MY Little Wild White Rose"
Agnes Paff
Reading
1.-THE Roadside Flowers"
Hugs Eainslie
Reading
"Life's Magic Wand"
Sandy Swancy
Reading
"Snoqualmie Falls"
Miss Wathalia Jensen
Reading
1.-THE Roses Message"
Helen Howard
Reading
1.-THE Spirit of Lake Washington
Betty Alhadeff
Reading
1.-THE Prayer OF Cyrus Brown"
Miss Ardath Raynes
Vocal Solo, Harp
by The Bend of The River"
Ruth Osborn
Free-Will Offering
Chairman refreshment commit
tee,, Mr.. S. F. Vanetta, Rt. Box
1853, Renton, Wash. Chairman
Transportation, Mr.. Gus West,
Night and Day Fuel Co., and Jim's
Cafe and Manning Fuel Co., 600
21st Ave.
Deacon James Smith
E. R. Chainey
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PROGRAM
The American Negro
In 1910
BY Jack Steinberg

NAACP Attorney For washington
During the year 1910 five per-
sons in the United States were
lynched, four of whom were Ne
groes. This was one more than
in 1889.
Two of the lynchings took place
in Georgia, two in Alabama and
one in Tennessee. The four Ne
groes were O'Dee Henderson, Fair
field, Alabama; Ebert Williams,
Brownsville, Tennessee; Jess
Thornton, Luverne, Alabama; and
Austin Galloway, La Grange,
Georgia.
In only one case was the vic
tim charged with a sex offense.
In the other cases the charges
included drunkenness and lack of
proper respect" for white people
In recent years, have been in
the Solid South on a number of
occasions and I have had an OPP
portunity to witness at first hand
the racial bigotry that obtains in
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Miss
issippi and Louisiana.
In 1889 I was in Germany and
I will say that the treatment of
the Jews in Berlin is no more
degrading than that given the Ne
groes in New Orleans. When one
actually sees the condition of the
black man in the South, one be-
gins to lose faith in the efficiency
and the fairness of the judicial
system. Until I actually saw il
with my own eyes, I did not be-
lieve it was possible to segregate
| colored people in Jim Crow rail
road cars. 1 thought the Federal
OOAhoIiIuIioil gave SdSll hldll Cdudl-
ity with his neighbor.
When in the city of the Mardi
Gras I saw the Negroes relegated
to the back end of the street cars
when in st Mary's, Missouri,
learned that Negroes could come in
to town on Wednesdays and Sat
urdays only; when in Milton, Flor
ida, 1 saw that in a public theatre
Negroes could not enter through
the front door but must go in by
way of the fire escape; I said to
myself, Can this be America ?"
The problem of the Negro in
America is a basic one and goes
back 800 years. But fourteen mil
lion people cannot be subjected
forever and slowly the battle is
being won.
1910 was a fairly good year for
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Ladies Auxiliary BSCP

The card party given at the Y.
w. C. A. June 7, was a notable
success.
The auxiliary meets the first and
third Tuesdays of each month
Business only is transacted at the
first meeting. The second meeting
| is of a social nature when men,
bers may bring their hubbys. The
last meeting was at the home of
Mrs. Armeta Hearst and the next
will be at Mrs. Julia Jones. Mrs.
Mrs. Carrie Lewis, the chairman,
has been confined in her bed for
the past week account of illness.
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the Negroes. It had its good points
and its bad ones. 1t saw progress
being made by institutions such
as the National Association For
The Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, Tuskegee Institute, the Ma
tional Urban League and Howard
University, by individuals such as
Paul Robson, A. Philip Randolph,
Gen. Benjamin o. Davis, Marion
Anderson, Langston Hughes, Wal
ter White, Edward K. Duke" ELL
ington, and DR.. George w. Car
yer. 1t saw a reversal of convic-
lions of four Florida Negro youths
and two elsewhere on grounds
their Confessions" were brought
about by torture. 1t saw important
U. S. Supreme Court victories
equalizing salaries of Negro and
white teachers.
And yet, 1910 had its reverses.
1t saw an intensification of color
discrimination in national defense
industries; it saw failure of Con-
gress to pass the anti-lynching
bill; it saw the segregation of Ne
groes as the official policy of the
new United States Army; it saw
the tragic Tightening of the dis
elimination belt by American Ia
Dor unions; and it saw failure
of the Dies Committee to investi-
gate groups like the Ku Klux Klan,
the Silver Shirts and the Black Le-
gion-all Anti-Negro.
1871 will require eternal vigil
ance on the part of the American
Negro if the battle is to be won.
I expect the American Negro to
awaken from his lethargy. I ex-
pect the battle to be won.
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Fathers Day

Have you daddy? We had
one, too. We called him "pappy."
He seldom laughed. He never
cried. He was too busy trying to
make both ends meet at home. His
salary never exceeded $500 a
week.
He was one of twenty. There
were thirteen of us. He insisted
that each child of school age re-
main at his studies nine months
each year Mother had to work to
aid him. Neither could read nor
write. Both insisted their children
would not be denied schooling.
Pappy worshipped God. He low
ed the Methodist Church and the
Republican party. Neither could
do any wrong. When not attend
ing their meetings he was always
found at home We believed differ
emily, but took no issue, lest we
disturbed his faith. He passed by
gossip as the idle wind. He must
know for himself.
He was our ideal man. He could
do no wrong. He passed on to the
God he loved so well. The tears
he left behind, we shed for him.
Sunday is Fathers day. Don't
let it pass without loving word to
him. Maybe he sheds no tears, yet
his heart may be burdened all on
account of you and mother.
Just a pair of socks, a pipe or
cigar and tell him he is your ideal
man and you love him. Tell him
he could do no wrong. Watch the
smile you have coaxed from your
friend.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends for their beautiful floral
offerings, for the many kindly
visitations during illness. For
the deep sympathy, kindly
deeds and thoughts in our hour
of bereavement.
We wish to thank the Rev.
L. R. Hayes for his heavenly
picture, Mrs. E. R. Chainey and
the harpist, Miss Ruth Osborne
whose songs and music soothed
our hearts.
Especially do we thank Sister
Helen 0. Baker, president of
Ladies Auxiliary Lewis Ford
Post No. 289 and John R. Tan
ner, Post No. 5 for her conduct
of the last rites at the grave of
our departed.
Samuel Chenault, husband
Mamie E. Bowen, sister
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JUST TO REMIND YOU

Continued From Page One)
Please give an ear to Lower Seven.
We don't deserve these linen
sheets
We're used to sleeping on the
seats
And we are not exactly certain
That we belong behind this cur
tain.
If Thou need lead us to the wars.
Why aren't we in the Jim Crow
cars?
Hallowed be thy name, o Father.
We didn't think they'd even bother
To give us pillows for our heads.
But take a look: they gave us
beds,
Electric light and paper cup,
And leave to hang our trousers
up,
And (praise the LordD some little
places
Where colored boys could wash
their faces.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done,
Thy blessing on each mothers
SON
Thy blanket when the night is
cold,
Thy toilet when the night is old!
If Uncle Sam were here tonight,
We'd call him in and treat him
right
And give our lives to guard his
earth
Because he put us in a berth.
o little children, get on board
This car, where colored boys are
Sweet liberty, our happy kiss
Who thought the draft would be
like this?
For all night long the engins slam
To take us to our Uncle Sam,
And all night long we sleep and
smile,
And Jesus walks the Pullman aisle.
-MacKinlay Kantor
1.-THE New Yorker"
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First Baptist Church of Ken
nydale, Washington. Go ye into
all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature. Mark
1915.
Rev. Judson Swancy, Pastor
and Evangelist, Douglas Annex
Apt. "a, Seattle, Washington.
Residence phone, CA. 9960.
Grace Presbyterian Church,
Rev. John II. Harris, Pastor.
Sunday School is held at 9:45
a. M; IL a. m. Morning WOr-
ship; 6 p. m. Young People;
1880 p. m. Evening Worship.
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Helena, Montana
The Eye
What Is Up?

People are wondering what hap
pened to the proceeds of a recent
Money Drive" conducted in the
city by tn Rev. Hunt, which was
supposedly for the express purpose
of remodeling st. James A. M. E.
Church. Six weeks have passed
and still no indication of any work.
is in evidence at the church. What
is up?
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BreInerton, Wn.
EbeneZer A. Nj. Il. Church
9th And Park


Rev. w. j. Conquest, Pastor
The church dinner was a grand
success. Mrs Hattie Jones made a
wonderful chef. The church ex-
tends thanks to all members and
friends assisting. Double thanks
to Mrs. L. R. Hayes of Seattle.
Mrs. Patty Lou Henderson of
Alaska is visiting her mother and
stepfather, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Pritchard and brother Ralph.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Williams have
moved to West Bremerton.
The young people are planning
get together picnic in the near
future.
Mrs. Pettis and two children of
California are here for a short
visit. Mr.. Pettis is a steward in
the navy.
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Church of God In Christ
23rd and East Madison


Sunday school, 1000 a. M; Nor
ming Worship, HOO a. M; Y. P.
w. w. $50 p. M; Evangelistic
service, 500 p. m.
service 500 p. m. Mid week SER
vices Tuesday and Friday, 500
Workers Meeting convenes July
18th, lasting 10 days. Senior Bish-
op c. T. Mason, Assistant Cen
eral Mother Lillian Coffee, Over
seer S. M. Crouch and son, Minis
ter S. Crouch Jr, Assistant Over
seer Van Goodlow and wife, Sis
ter Goodlow Assistant State Mo-
Their of California, will attend.
We are asking all visiting dele
gates to please register. Informa-
ton and registrtiaon desk in
charge of Mother Reese and Sister
Bertha Mitchell.
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st. Philips Church
(EpiscOpal)

227 23rd Avenue North
The Rev. Raymond David Holmes,
vicar.
Sunday, June 10, 2 p. M, YES
pers and Sermon. "The Second
Mile" The Rev. Mr.. Holmes will
begin a summer sermon series on
June %, based upon John Bun
vans immortal masterpies, "Pil-
grim's Progress"
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NAACP Honor Roll

Continued from Page One)
Herbert Coleman
Mrs. Louise Coleman
Joe Craig
Laurence Dimry
Mrs. Lillian Dixen
Harry Duvall q
Evergreen Temple No. 1877 Daugf
ters of Elks
Scott Field
Ira Flood
Leon Green
La Mari Greer
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Griffith
Thos. Hams
John Henderson
VIM. Henry
Mrs. A. Harrington
Erwin Higgins
Mrs. Julia Higgins
Horace Hughes
Herbert A. Johnson
Palmer Johnson
w. R. Johnson
Abner Jones
Mrs. Eva Jones
James A. Jones
G. E. Larpenteur
James G. Lash
l.. R. Lee
Harold Lewis
Mrs. Louise Louis
Mrs. Marika Lewis
Mrs. Susie Marshall
Samson Miller
Howard I. Moorehead
Mrs. Clifton Morris
Clifton Morris
William Oby
Volumnia Parks
Earl Payne
Chas. R. Pollock
Roger Quaco
James Rasby
John Rice
Mrs. Elsie Richards
William Richardson
w. B. Roberts
A. w. Robinson
E. I. Robinson
Mrs. Marie Roston
Mrs. Clarence Rounds
Richard Ruffian
Robert Sanders
Mrs. Anna Scott
Mrs. Margaret Seeley
Benjamin Silver
Ardie Smith
Mrs. Elbe Smith
E. R. Smith
Mrs. Helen Snyder
Sherman Spates
George Stevens
James Summers
Ora Walker
Mrs. Beatrice Williams
David j. Williams
Robert Wright
Wreen Wright
Two additional names liste
with Mrs. Shannon, membershi
secretary:
DR.. Walter Scott Brown
John ]. Clayton
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Church News
First A. M. T.. Church
Rev. L. II. Hayes, Pastor

Rev. J. n. Bel, 5. ). Supt.
A large number of adults at
tended Childrens Day service. The
morning service was devoted to
the children's program. Rendi-
tons by the junior choir were very
impressive.
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Barbecue, Picnic, Little Church By
The Side Of The Road, Kennydale

The First Baptist Church of
Kennydale, Washington, on the
10Th of June will hold the most
elaborate outdoor picnic ever
staged in the Northwest. The lit
the church by the road has made
ample preparations to serve all
Seattle. Special arrangements have
been made for the kiddies.
Once you reach Kennydale on
the 10Th, the little church meets
you with open arms and for once
in a lifetime all cares will fold
their tents and quietly steal away
When the little church by the road
is your host, you are really enter
tanned. Listen to this:
Feast in the Wilderness, barbe-
cue; 1st Baptist Church of Kenny
dale preaching, speaking, refresh
ments.
arrangements have been made
to transport children from the A.
M. e. Mt. Zion and Grace Pres
bysterian churches without cost to
and from the picnic grounds.
SCHEDULE
Free transportation for children.
A. M. E. church 1918 a. M,
Mt. Zion Baptist church 1920 a.
m, Grace Presbyterian church
10:45 a. m. All children will be
returned before midnight. Church
es are requested to send chaper-
ones to accompany their children.
] PROGRAM
| Reading
a. what I Live For"
b. Grandpa and Grandma"
Betty Alhadeff
Reading
a. 1.-THE Railroad Crossing"
b. 1.-THE Dollar and The Cent"
Hugh Ainslie
Monologue
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Spend Your Dollars With
Friendly Merchants
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the aforementioned racial mark
ings: a gap between the upper
front teeth and big toes that over
lap the foretoes.
Two of Rabbi Matthew's three
SONS are studying for the rabbi
nate, while the third is engaged
in the gaS-range business. Miss
Matthew, the rabbits pretty, teen
age daughter, breezed into t h e
room while we were talking, with
a CHEEKY "ShalOm, pa" and I ga
thered that she was her fathers
Benjamin. The "rebetzen" was
busy busting the synagogue, for
it was Friday afternoon.
Rabbi Matthew speaks a rather
distorted Sephardic Hebrew, ex-
cellent English, and German.
When asked if he knew any Yid-
dish, he replied with smile, "a
bissel"
He doesn't mince words when
giving his opinion on a given top
ic; on the contrary, he spOuts
them. He made it perfectly clear
to me that the FalashaS are not
''NegrO Jews" He abhOrs the
term negro" and considers it a
derisive mOnicker for the black
race. 1--WE are black jews" he in
sisted, "WhO live in Africa, Amer
lea and the West Indies (nOtably
the Isle of st. ThOmaS) and we
hope some day to return unto
Zion" Touching ZiOnism, he de-
clareS himself to be an ardent
supporter of the movement be-
cause 'sit is beneficial for all
Jews"
He is orthodox, but, as he puts
it, I'VE are liberal-minded on re-
ligious questions in the present
day world"
Despite the fact that there have
been a few voluntary conversions
to Judaism among the cOlOred
Christians, the black Jews do not
go out looking for converts. Said
the rabbi: ga Jew is a Jew if he
is born jewish"
Sabbath services are conducted
very much as in an ordinary syn
agogue, with one exception, which
the rabbi shamefacedly admits:
the playing of the piano. Rabbi
Matthew reads aloud from the
standard Phillips prayer book and
when the Scroll of the Law is ia
ken out of the Ark to be read.
twelve men, each representing one
of tn e Tribes of Israel, stand
around the Torah. On the first
day of Rosh Hashonah, small tam
bourines are beaten rhythmically
during the services.
On the wall of the synagogue
hangs picture of the Lion of Ju-
dab, the Emperor of Ethiopia,
Halle Selassie. Rabbi Matthew is
of the opinion that the Lion of
Judah is descendant of MeniIeIx.
who, in turn, is said to have been
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4AASNN NSSA0s
The rabbi of this community is
not a native American. He is
Moshe ben Benjamin ben Yehudah
of the small Falasha village, Her
NIT, in Lagos, West Africa. His
name in New York now is, how
ever, Rabbi Wentworth Arthur
Matthew!
Born in 1892 as MOShe ben Ben
yamin, the present spiritual lead
er of the cOlOred Jews of New
York learned a smattering of Sc
phardic Hebrew in his native Fa-
lasha village. His father was the
village cObbIer, but MOShe's grand
father had been a very famous Fa-
lasha preacher.
The boys ambition to follow in
his grandfather's footsteps over
flowed all bounds. It was through
sheer courage, coupled with a re-
markable sense of adaptability,
that the boy managed to emerge
as an undergraduate at the es-
teemed University of Berlin. Dur
ing tine years prior to the outbreak
of the Great War, he studied at
the University's School of Theo-
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logy and was given private tutor
ing by eminent Jewish professors.
After receiving his ID. D., he
changed his name to the more An
gIO-SaxOn Wentworth Arthur Mat
thew and set out to make that
name famous by transfusing re-
juvcnated Jewish blood into the
VaVering black Jews. His travels
carried h i m to darkest Africa,
Egypt, Arabia and Palestine. He
spent some time in Tel Aviv STD
dying. Every Sabbath found him
1t the WaiIing Wall in Jerusalem
brushing shoulders with kaftan-
covered HaSSidim from Poland and
fez-bedecked Jews from Turkey.
In 1927, Rabbi Matthew came
to America to organize his breth-
rem in New York City. Since then,
an impressive synagogue has been
established; observance of the
Sabbath md the holidays has
come to mean something to col
ored Jewry; the practice of cir
cumcision and the use of kosher
foods are strictly adhered to. All
in all, Rabbi Matthew's standing at
the helm of New York's colored
Jewry has proved to be Rock of
Gibraltar against all attempts to
assimilate it.
Rabbi Matthew lives with his
wife and four children in small
but neat apartment adjacent to
the synagogue. In the coy, book
ish sitting room, where he and 1
talked, two things impressed me
immensely: the abundance of null
ti-sized memorials, and the numer-
Gus flower pots literally chOckfull
of plants. Rabbi Matthew was
dressed in rabbinicaI black, with
a scraggIy beard fitting snugly on
his broad chin. When he spoke,
it was deliberately, as if he were
expanding on the "sedrah" of the
week.
1.-THE cause of the Jews is our
cause" he told me, ''for we in
deed are the Jews" Asked to eX-
plain, Rabbi Matthew stated that
a number of years ago black Jews
had been accused of being the il
legitimate offspring of Jewish
soldiers and black women in Afri-
ca. This set the wheels rolling in
sofar as Rabbi Matthews w a S
concerned. After years Of tedious
research he came to the conclusion
/ that white Jews are descendants
of Esau and all black Jews of ia
cob. This rather startling revela-
ton was engendered mainly from
the Biblical assertion that Esau's
skin was hairy las is the white's)
and Jacobs skin was smooth las
is the Negro's). The rabbi refers
to himself, in particular, as being
of the Tribe of Judah for he bears
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CoIored Jews In America
The Black Jews and Their Rabbi
By DAVID MORDECAI

This is the story of the Black Jews in New York and
their rabbi the story of weOrganzed Jewish commune
ty living right in the heart of New YOrs district for
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the son of King Solomon and the
Queen of Sheba.
When I took my leave of Rab-
bi Matthew, it was rather strange
having him call after me, as a sign
of farewell, "Shalom Aleichem."