During his imprisonment in the ’70s, he went in H. Rap Brown and came out Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. From 1976 until his capture in 2000, he continued to fight against oppression and serve the Black community. When our brother was released, he put his roots down in Atlanta and organized a small righteous community of Muslims. With pooled resources from brothers and sisters, a small house was purchased on the west end place and served as the Masjid. He was then selected as the Imam, and the leadership qualities that he developed in the liberation struggle as H. Rap Brown, would once again illuminate and effectively saturate the Black community. Brother Amin opened a grocery store and began to fight against drugs in the community. He would go on to confront the men who sold poison to our people, and soon afterward, the drug dealing ceased.
He ran the local gangsters and the murderers out of the community. Not only did he stop the drug pushers, but he also got rid of prostitution. Our brother was very instrumental in helping our sisters stop exploiting themselves and selling their beautiful African temples for money and drugs. Brother Jamil worked on getting garbage picked up and made sure
rooming houses got turned back into single-family dwellings. He encouraged all
members of the Mosque to become strong activists and to participate in neighborhood meetings. Jamil Al-Amin, other Muslims, and righteous Black residents of the community became a part of a re-birth and re-vitalization on Atlanta’s west end. The African Muslim community and the African/Black community at large simply began to work together to fight against poverty, homelessness, prostitution, gentrification, Black-on-Black violence, and the sheer despair that showed its ugly face. This type of unification is needed between all Black people of all religious and political belief systems. Community activist Janice Sykes, said, “Brother Amin was an asset who knew how to wrest concessions from the system. He understood the…
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