RIOTS IN HARLEM "HEAVEN"
Followers of Father Divine and Faithful Mary FOUR PEOPLE HURT -* & (Eeceived 19, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YOEK, June 18. A street fight between followers of Father Divine and Faithful Mary developed into a riot. It took the police two hours to restore order and three
negroes and a white woman were takep to hospital. \ An inereasing number of maleontentp are leaving Father Divine for Faithful Mary and the streets in the Harlem; "Heaven" are becoming a frequeilt battleground. "Father Divine," a negro religious revjvalist was born in the TJnited States in 1899 and started a new cult known as "Divinism, " which by 1933 had spread like wildfire in the Harlem quarter of New York and in t>lhei negro communities. He had hostS of white as well as black disciples. These he convinced that he wtis a new Messiah. • His real name is George Baker. "Faithful Mary," a white woman, was oue of his most earnest disciples, but was recently expelled from the uiovement.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 5
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