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Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. (born January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina) is an African-American activist, author, journalist, and the current president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Khadijah Farrakhan converted to Islam with her husband Louis Farrakhan (then Louis Eugene Walcott) in 1955, when they had been married for two years. [5] She spoke at the Million Woman March in 1997. [6] [7] Khadijah and Louis Farrakhan are the parents of nine children. [8] [1] The Farrakhans' eldest son, Louis Farrakhan Jr., died on June 2 ...
In 1923, Poole and his wife Clara relocated to Detroit, where they settled in the black ghetto of Paradise Valley. [274] There, he joined Garvey's UNIA, [275] and worked in industrial plants before becoming unemployed amid the Great Depression. [272] On joining the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad gave Poole the new name of Elijah Karriem. [276]
Members of the Nation of Islam at the march. In addition to their goal of fostering a spirit of support and self-sufficiency within the black community, organizers of the Million Man March sought to use the event as a publicity campaign aimed at combating the negative racial stereotypes in the American media and in popular culture.
Walcott and his wife Betsy were invited to the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day address by Elijah Muhammad. Prior to going to Saviours' Day, due to then-Minister Malcolm X's media presence, Walcott had never heard of Elijah Muhammad, and like many outside of the Nation of Islam, he thought that Malcolm X was the leader of the Nation of Islam.
[2] [25] Two adults and a child were shot to death, 4 other children were drowned whose ages ranged from 9 days to 10 years old. Two others were severely injured. [26] Four men from the Nation of Islam Mosque No. 12 were accused of the crime. [27] [28] The University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database has a listing for the residence's 1973 ...
Robert Harris was born on August 3, 1888, to parents Alec and Lulu in Mississippi. In July 3, 1929, he moved to Detroit, Michigan. He had a wife, Bertha. [1] James Smith was born on December 25, 1892 in Atlanta. [2] In 1930, a man named W.D. Fard came to Detroit, ultimately founding a group called the Allah Temple of Islam. Among Fard's ...
The Nation of Islam is estimated to have between 20,000 and 50,000 members, [25] and 130 mosques offering numerous social programs. [26] Upon his death, his son Warith Deen Mohammed succeeded him. Warith disbanded the Nation of Islam in 1976 and founded an orthodox mainstream Islamic organization, that came to be known as the American Society ...