PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

For the fruition of black power, for the triumph of black nationhood, I pledge to the Republic of New Africa and to the building of a better people and a better world, " total devotion, my total resources, and the total power of my mortal life.

YOUR SUPPORT

All Jews did not go to Israel. So, too, all Black People will not at first be citizens of the Republic of New Africa. Even so, you may donate, buy Certificates of Recognition, or voluntarily pay taxes. You may address your questions, gifts, or taxes

The First Malcolm X Certificate of Recognition may be bought by anyone for $100.00. It is a gift to the Republic to be used specifically and only for the purchase of land to build a new city in the South.

The Republic of New Africa

Post Office Box
Detroit, Michigan

48206

REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA: AN AFRICAN NATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE STRUGGLING FOR COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE, MAY 14, 1969

Office of the First Vice President, 518 Orchard Lake Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan. Mailing Address, Box 667, Detroit, Michigan 48206.

A list of current officers of the RNA:

President, Robert F. Williams.

First Vice President, Milton R. Henry, Esq.
Second Vice President.

Treasurer, Obaboa Olowo.

Minister of the Interior, Imari Obadele.

Ministers of Culture, Oserjeman Adefunmi-Leroi Jones.

Minister of Education, Herman Ferguson.

Minister of State & Foreign Affairs, Wilbur Grattan, Sr.

Minister of Justice, John Franklin, Esq.

Minister of Health and Welfare, Queen Mother Moore.

Minister of Finance, Raymond E. Willis.

Minister of Information (Deputies), Charles W. Enoch, Leito Durley.
Minister of Defense, Mweusi Chui.

Special Ambassador, Maxwell Stanford.

[From vol. II, No. 1, issue of the New African, Apr. 20, 1969]

Brother Gaidi (Milton Henry), First Vice President of the Republican of New Africa had printed his Executive Order making the following changes in the officers of the RNA.

Region A.-Embracing all of the Eastern Coastal Area of the United States, and including the cities contained along the coast from Maine to Florida. Vice President-Herman Ferguson

Region B.-Embracing all of the middle West and the western portion of N.Y. and Penna. Vice President-Brother Imari

Region C.-Embracing all of the South, including Louisiana, and Texas. Vice President-Virginia Collins

Region D.-Embracing all of the Far East, including Arizona. Vice PresidentObaboa Alowa

(NOTE.-Bahiyah Betty Shabazz, who was Second Vice President, resigned her position because of family problems.

(Maulana Ron Karenga, who was one of the ministers of Culture, was removed from his position, because of the incident of two Black Panthers who were killed in Calif. and he refused to explain his involvement in it.

(H. Rap Brown, who was one minister of Defense, has been dropped because his whereabouts are questionable and is unavailable.)

Mr. BEATSON. This document was received from the Detroit Police Department, Detroit, Mich.

The Republic of New Africa was established at a National Black Government Conference held March 30-31, 1968, at the Shrine of the Black Madonna-Central United Church of Christ-Detroit, Mich. Rev. Albert Cleage is the pastor of the church, and he is active in Detroit's black militant population.

Between 150 and 200 delegates and some 2,000 to 3,000 observers heard two brothers, Milton and Richard Henry, outline their plan to separate once and for all the black and white populations in North America.

The basic theme of the RNA is self-defense, and the movement has developed into a program of separation with a para-military force. Some individuals involved with RNA are identical to persons who

have been associated with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM).

In 1967, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described RAM as a "highly secret, all-Negro, Marxist-Leninist, Chinese Communist organization which advocated guerrilla warfare to obtain its goals."

Robert F. Williams, who is designated on the chart as the president, is the president of the Republic of New Africa, has been an FBI fugitive for 9 years on a kidnapping charge in Monroe, N.C. Williams has found refuge during that time in Cuba, Communist China, and Tanzania.

The CHAIRMAN. Is he still a fugitive?

Mr. BEATSON. He is still a fugitive.

The CHAIRMAN. How did he attend this meeting?

Mr. BEATSON. He did not attend the meeting, sir. He was elected president-in-exile. He did not attend the meeting.

The CHAIRMAN. He was not present?

Mr. BEATSON. He was not present.

The CHAIRMAN. As far as you know, he is still out of the United States?

sir.

Mr. BEATSON. As far as I know, he is still out of the United States,

The CHAIRMAN. But he was elected president of this militant organization?

Mr. BEATSON. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. Very well.

Mr. BEATSON. At this point, Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit for the record exhibit R-2, which is a copy of the July-August 1964 issue of the Crusader, a monthly publication.

The copy contains an article signed Robert F. Williams, exiled leader of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM).

This appears on page 4 of that exhibit in your possession.

The CHAIRMAN. Very well. Let it be received.

(The document referred to was marked "Exhibit No. 520" for reference and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)

The CHAIRMAN. What is he wanted for?

Mr. BEATSON. He is wanted on a kidnapping charge, sir, in Monroe, N.C. He is a fugitive.

In addition, the cover of that exhibit that you have in your possession identifies Robert F. Williams as publisher-in-exile.

In 1964, this newsletter was published in Cuba.

The next document I have is exhibit R-3, which is a copy of the November 1968 issue of the Crusader.

The November 1968 issue of the Crusader has a cover article entitled "On The Republic of New Africa." It is noted that Robert F. Williams is the president of the Republic of New Africa. The November 1968 issue was published in Communist China.

The CHAIRMAN. Let it be received.

(The document referred to was marked "Exhibit No. 521" for reference and follows:)

"We's 'One Nation, Under Gawd, Indivisible', Boy!"

The recent first step towards self-determination for the oppressed nation of Black America is not a new one. It is an extension and continuation of the ideas of the late Marcus Garvey, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, the late Malcolm X and countless others. Brutalized, frustrated, dehumanized and enslaved Black people in America have long dreamed of a homeland wherein they could escape the rigors and hazards of oppressive savage tyranny. The dream of self-determination and nationhood has swelled the breasts of captive nations through time

immemorial. The drive for freedom, self-respect and self-determination is a natural human attribute.

Among the disinherited and the wretched of the carth there have always been fawning individuals who preferred to submit to the harried and tormented union of orderly slavery rather than to confront the uncertain challenge of disunion and liberation. Our own tragic history in racist America affords us a graphic example of such an indecisive and slavish mentality. After the so-called emancipation of the Black slaves in America, many insecure souls had to be driven from the clutches of human bondage at bayonet point. This was due In part to the brutal profundity of environmental conditioning. To some terror-stricken souls the rugged road of freedom was an awesome sight that could only lead to perdition. Despite the wretched voices of fear and prophets of doom, the masses cast down their chains and took to the perilous road of stormy uncertainty. What one among us today would still insist that our well-being and collective security would have best been served by loyally clinging to the bloody chains of slavery?

After the Boston Tea Party and the rising crescendo of those who called for independence and revolution, again, we have a case wherein some docile and status quo accommodating individuals preferred the oppressive social immobility of tyranny to the uncertain social locomotion of revolutionary change and the challenge of self-determination. Today, who would deny the wisdom and nobility of those who angrily cast off their oppressive chains and set the torch of freedom to the citadel of tyranny? No, we are not so unfamiliar with history as not to know that tragically some revolutions faltered and temporarily failed, but neither are we unaware of the fact that a noble undertaking of freedom can never be considered a permanent failure.

Unprincipled souls, devoid of courage and creative stamina, can devise a million reasons and causes why a daring and divine mission may fail, but they are always hard pressed in formulating a single honorable alternative affording certain positive success. For one reason or other, the cynical critics we will have with us always. Wise, honest and positive criticism is an integral part of a society, an idea or an individual's natural growth and development. However, the criticism of the cynic is the sinister product of a frustrated and disgruntled jester seeking status through a profession of criticism based on besmirching the creativity of those daring activists who set out to do, and sometimes succeed in 'ping what cynics neither have the capacity nor courage to undertake.

There are those among us who seem to think that America is a Godmade indivisible empire blessed with the divine gift of permanence. That country which is nearest to permanence is also nearest to perfection. That country which is nearest to indivisibility is a bastion of brotherhood and justice. Racist America is no divine exception, like all other realms of oppression and tyranny, she, too, is subject to the laws that govern the transience of empire. A government that rejects the long suffering pleas of the oppressed and aggrieved for redress licenses insurrection and sccession.

Some advocates of continued submission in the face of insufferable tyranny are desperately trying to confuse the issue of self-determination. These reactionary souls try to impinge the sacredness of selfdetermination by haughtily alluding to it as the negro's version of