Baba Herman Ferguson joins the Ancestors.

Baba Herman Ferguson joins the Ancestors. Baba Herman was a progressive and Black Nationalist educator in the New York City schools system. An associate of Malcolm X, he was a member of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).

Baba Herman was the organizer and director of the OAAU Liberation School. He formed the Black Brotherhood Inc. in Queen, NY, which joined the Revolutionary Action Movement in 1967. In response to white supremacist groups arming themselves, Baba Herman formed a rifle club for Blacks in Queens, NY.

He also motivated his students like Mutulu Shakur and Abdul Majid to become active in the the Black Power movement. Baba Herman also joined the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika in 1968.

He was targeted by the FBI Cointelpro program and forced into exile in Guyana. He returned to the U.S. and served time as a political prisoner and after his release fought for the release of other incarcerated freedom fighters.

He and his wife and partner in love and struggle, Mama Iyaluua Ferguson initiated the Nationtime newspaper, the New Afrikan Liberation Front, and the Jericho Movement for Amnesty for U.S. political prisoners.

I am blessed and more enriched to learn and work with Baba Herman. His spirit will continue to guide and fight for us as an Ancestor!!!

Free the Land!!! Ase!!!

by Brother Akinyele Umoja -9/26/14
https://www.facebook.com/akumoja?fref=ts

UPDATE:

Brother Herman Ferguson returned to the Ancestors at approximately 2:45 pm on Thursday, Sep 25th while at home in North Carolina. He had suffered with congestive heart failure for many years, and a few months ago started receiving hospice care at home. While his spirit always remained high his physical condition had worsened, particularly so in last week. His wife, and long time comrade Sis Iyalua Ferguson, says she believes that in the end he made the transition peacefully.

Baba Herman had a long and active relationship with the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG-RNA), with the New Afrika Independence Movement. He was Minister of Education in the first Cabinet in 1968, and in later years, among other things, served as a District Judge. The thought and prayers of the PG-RNA are with his family.

At present time plans are to hold a memorial service in North Carolina for Baba Herman sometime in the near future. His family will provide more information as details are worked out.

Free The Land,
A Luta Continua

by Masai Ehehosi
Miinster of Information
PG-RNA

LATEST UPDATE:

The memorial service for Baba Herman Ferguson will take place Saturday, 04 October 2014, 1:30PM, at:

Steven L. Lyons Funeral Home
1515 New Bern Avenue
Raleigh NC 27611

919-831-2596 Phone

Moments of visitation with the family, 1-1:30, prior to the service.

Friends, comrades and well-wishers are encouraged to share a memory or leave a comforting message for the family.
http://www.stevenlyonsfuneralhome.com/new_view.php?id=5343526&op=viewcond

by:
masai ehehosi masai_e@yahoo.com

Living Legends - A Conversation with Herman and Iyaluua Ferguson from NCSU AACC on Vimeo.

Word has been received that BaBa Herman Ferguson has made his transition.

Herman Ferguson was a prominent member of Malcolm X's Muslim Mosque Inc. and later his Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Malcolm X created both organizations in 1964, after leaving the Nation of Islam. Ferguson met Malcolm after he and other African-Americans in Queens set up the Rochdale Movement, which sought to stop the construction of a new housing development in Queens.

In 1959, New York City was set to erect Rochdale Village on the site of the Old Jamaica racetrack in Queens, but word soon got out that Blacks would not be hired to build the site and would be excluded from living in any of the developments39;, soon-to-be available, 5,280 apartments. The Rochdale Movement couldn't halt the construction of the development, but it went on to become a major voice on issues of economic and community development for Blacks in Queens.

The Rochdale Movement caught the attention of Nation of Islam members working in Queens. So when Ferguson attended one of Malcolm X's services at his Mosque No. 7 in Harlem and then asked if Malcolm would be interested in coming to speak at a rally in St. Albans, Queens, the minister welcomed the invitation.

After becoming one of his close associates, he became one of the founding members of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity. He also helped to organize the Republic of new Afrika and was a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM).

BaBa Herman was a Giant who assumed a leading role in the struggle for community control of NYC schools in the late 60's. It spanned 3 years and a disignated school districts: Ocean-Hill Brownsville, Harlem and the Lower East Side - and ove time the predominantly white teacher's union opposed community control by shutting down all the schools in NYC thru a teacher's leaders - and progressive white teachers - banded together in the three designated school districts to keep their schools open. Herman, serving an administrative capacity, set yup new teaching curriculums, helped solicit substitute teachers o color to replace the striking white teachers and helped recruit community parents to work as teacher's aides and hallway monitors to keep their schools open and operating.

As a member of RAM, Herman was arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and Whitney Young of the Urban League. Herman was sentenced to 3 and a half – 7 years, but he fled the country and surfaced in Guyana where he lived and worked for the next 19 years. In 1989 he returned to the United States where he was promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven years. After his release he served as the co-chair of the Jericho Movement, and as the chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.

Though BaBa Herman will be missed. He has left a shining legacy that, if followed and emulated, will propel us to excel and achieve independence, liberation and self-determination; which is what he was all about.
~
From: AbdudDharr Abdullah abujalaal@hotmail.com

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TheBlackList September 27, 2014 at 10:28pm

Living Legends - A Conversation with Herman and Iyaluua Ferguson from NCSU AACC on Vimeo.

Word has been received that BaBa Herman Ferguson has made his transition.

Herman Ferguson was a prominent member of Malcolm X's Muslim Mosque Inc. and later his Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Malcolm X created both organizations in 1964, after leaving the Nation of Islam. Ferguson met Malcolm after he and other African-Americans in Queens set up the Rochdale Movement, which sought to stop the construction of a new housing development in Queens.

In 1959, New York City was set to erect Rochdale Village on the site of the Old Jamaica racetrack in Queens, but word soon got out that Blacks would not be hired to build the site and would be excluded from living in any of the developments39;, soon-to-be available, 5,280 apartments. The Rochdale Movement couldn't halt the construction of the development, but it went on to become a major voice on issues of economic and community development for Blacks in Queens.

The Rochdale Movement caught the attention of Nation of Islam members working in Queens. So when Ferguson attended one of Malcolm X's services at his Mosque No. 7 in Harlem and then asked if Malcolm would be interested in coming to speak at a rally in St. Albans, Queens, the minister welcomed the invitation.

After becoming one of his close associates, he became one of the founding members of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity. He also helped to organize the Republic of new Afrika and was a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM).

BaBa Herman was a Giant who assumed a leading role in the struggle for community control of NYC schools in the late 60's. It spanned 3 years and a disignated school districts: Ocean-Hill Brownsville, Harlem and the Lower East Side - and ove time the predominantly white teacher's union opposed community control by shutting down all the schools in NYC thru a teacher's leaders - and progressive white teachers - banded together in the three designated school districts to keep their schools open. Herman, serving an administrative capacity, set yup new teaching curriculums, helped solicit substitute teachers o color to replace the striking white teachers and helped recruit community parents to work as teacher's aides and hallway monitors to keep their schools open and operating.

As a member of RAM, Herman was arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and Whitney Young of the Urban League. Herman was sentenced to 3 and a half – 7 years, but he fled the country and surfaced in Guyana where he lived and worked for the next 19 years. In 1989 he returned to the United States where he was promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven years. After his release he served as the co-chair of the Jericho Movement, and as the chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.

Though BaBa Herman will be missed. He has left a shining legacy that, if followed and emulated, will propel us to excel and achieve independence, liberation and self-determination; which is what he was all about.
~
From: AbdudDharr Abdullah abujalaal@hotmail.com
South

Takuna EL Shabazz September 26, 2014 at 5:18pm

May Allah embrace the spirit of Baba Herman Ferguson as he find peace and blessings with the worrior ancestors before him. I extend my condolences to Mama Iyaluua Ferguson and all of her loving family.

Peace and Blessing

Brother Takuna Maulana EL Shabazz

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TRIBUTES: Homage and Praises

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