Sufi Abdull Hamid, to give him his full name, Harlem’s “black Hitler,” evidently does not believe in specialization.
Besides serving as president of an alleged Negro nationalist movement, gaining jobs for the members of his Negro Industrial Clerical Alliance by forcing Jewish merchants to hire them, excoriating Jews in Harlem street corner soap-box addresses, and attending to what he calls his “private business enterprises,” he finds time to do a bit of fortune-telling on the side.
A printer, who asked to have his name withheld, told this reporter Friday that he printed circulars for the colored “Fuehrer” soliciting fortune-telling trade. The circulars, he said, bore a picture of Hamid adorned with his exotic-looking white turban.
“I had to give up doing Hamid’s printing,” said the printer, a lugubrious expression passing over his face, “he was very delinquent in paying.”
With Hamid’s anti-Jewish drive agitating Negro Harlem, it was learned yesterday that even street peddlers are being terrorized. A white peddler said that he was obliged to relinquish a particularly favorable street corner to a Negro who threatened to “sic” the N. I. C. A. on him.
The “black Hitler” is an impor-
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