another person you heard of is katherine dunham who worked on a project 1938-1939. oversaw project studying black cults and storefront churches and she and her group were among the first to study the nation of islam in town. recalls meeting elijah muhammed and being, quote, impressed by his sincerity. there is only one document with dunham's name actually on it. this one i found at the library of congress, the revolt in green pastures, the book project that was to come out of black religious groups, she is kind of riffing on mark connolly's play called green pastures, revolt in green pastures, this story of start up black religious groups, april 25th, 1939. among the numb at staff was the young frank kirby who later became famous writing several popular novels set in the south, romance novels. and frank, and black and white writers worked together but this particular studies they would try to send in white workers into places like the nation of islam or places like the temple, the white writers didn't get far so they started sending black writers like franker be who