Preview for Hue Magazine - Jet Magazine...1954

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

[Edie Antoinette]

Wow!

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Prophet Jones

[KnightD12]

The Prophet Jones peeked my curiosity. A very interestin man indeed. http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=182

[Edie Antoinette]

"The only way to succeed, the prophet warned, was to obey his approximately 50 decrees. For example, "No citizen must be the father or mother of a illegitimate child." And "women should wear girdles, long enough to keep the stomach and buttocks from protruding."

Interesting! Thanks for the link Gene!

[Edie Antoinette]

Almost sixty years ago the late Harlem US congressman Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. wrote an article entitled, “Sex in the Church.”  Appearing in the November 1951 issue of Ebony Magazine, the article first spoke about the need for sex education in the African-American Church.  Revered Powell told a story about an unidentified pastor’s grief over the death of his handsome and talented personal male assistant. Powell described the funeral of that of a scene out of Arabian nights with a lavish spread of flowers and a very expensive coffin.  But what Powell found most disturbing was the preacher’s quavering voice, tear soaked eyes and shaking body.  The pastor even attempted to leap into the casket!  He went on to write that the minister’s broken sobs were those of someone who had just lost his lover. As it turned out, the two had been involved in an unnatural relationship for a number of years and the entire congregation knew about it.  Today this “man of God” is one of the most powerful and respected Negro pastors in all America.  The preacher Powell was referring to was Detroit Prophet Jones (James Francis Jones) and his longtime companion James Walton.  Jones was said to be very flamboyant and exhibited feminine tendencies.  And he himself admitted that he lived differently from other men!

[Edie Antoinette]

I had a ball on this research...here's one of the Prophet's 'friends'..smh
He bought his chateau...