Chapter Five
The WPA Summary for its studies on Black Cults and Sects in Chicago
Numerous minor cults have sprung up in Chicago, but most of them have been short-lived. There are also branches of national or international organizations, such as the I Am Movement which conducts a Negro section in a South Side storeroom. Father Divine's "Angels" have set up half a dozen or more heavens. The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam maintains a Chicago mosque, and, unlike the other two non-Christian cults noted, entertains no enmity toward the white man. A spokesman has said: "We have all races as members here: American white men, Turks, Italians, Negroes, and all nations. It is ignorant to say we have a religion that a white man cannot join or one a Negro can't join."
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