Editing Five-Percent Nation (section)

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After the founding of the Allah School, the Gods and Earths became more influential{{snd}}upon the April 1968 [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], it quelled a potential rebellion inside Harlem.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=261–264}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |publisher=Oneworld |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |pages=107–109}}</ref> Allah was assassinated on the 13 June 1969, in the lobby of 21 West 112th Street in Harlem, within the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers housing projects, the residence of his wife and children.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=279-280}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |publisher=Oneworld |year=2007 |isbn=9781851686155 |pages=120}}</ref> There have been rumors and theories about assailants and motives,{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=281-292}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |publisher=Oneworld |year=2007 |isbn=9781851686155 |pages=117, 121}}</ref> but the murder remains unsolved. The murder was a blow to the movement. According to the direct orders of Allah before his death, some of his earliest disciples, a group of nine men who were called the First Nine Born carried on the teachings, and his friend Justice assumed an acting leadership role.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=298-299}}

The FBI's labeling the Five Percenters as a "gang" in 1965 has caused much trouble for Gods and Earths in the United States. The "gang" label has caused individuals with even remote NGE affiliation to be designated as security threats in jails and prisons in [[Michigan]], [[New Jersey]], New York, and [[South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scalc.net/decisions.aspx?q=4&id=3297 |title=Ra'heen M. Shabazz, #170474 vs. SCDOC |date=November 29, 2001 |publisher=SC Administrative Law Court |access-date=January 5, 2010 |archive-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305165705/http://www.scalc.net/decisions.aspx?q=4&id=3297 |url-status=live }}</ref> NGE literature has been banned from penal institutions in these and other states, and inmates have been denied privileges enjoyed by those of other persuasions. Such rules were relaxed in 2004 in New York to allow registered "sincere adherent(s)" to study teachings personally, but not share with unregistered inmates during their incarceration.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nation/judge-no-sign-that-nation-of-gods-is-prison-risk/article_3c38162d-837d-59a3-b03e-48e0d1271719.html |title=Judge: No sign that Nation of Gods is prison risk |last=White |first=Ed |date=September 8, 2009 |work=Victoria Advocate |access-date=September 9, 2009 |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430050257/https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nation/judge-no-sign-that-nation-of-gods-is-prison-risk/article_3c38162d-837d-59a3-b03e-48e0d1271719.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The group's newspaper, ''The Five Percenter'', condemns the states who impose restrictions on their practice as those who "attempt to define us in ways that seek to criminalize us."<ref>''Five Percenter Newspaper'', Vol 16.8, p.2</ref> In 2009, in Michigan, the Nation challenged a ban on the group's literature among prison inmates, after an inmate was designated a security threat until he renounced his membership. Judge Steven Whalen found no evidence that the group advocated violence and recommended that it be recognized as a legitimate belief system.<ref>White, Ed (September 9, 2009) "Nation of Islam sect allowed in prison", 
''The Associated Press''.</ref>