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Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Indiana, pictured in March 2010. Michael Joseph Jackson [3] [4] was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958. [5] [6] He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street.
Founded by Soofie Saheb at the turn of the century; the community is described as African Muslim yet speaking an Indian language. [52]: 115 Habibia Soofie Saheb Jamia Masjid Rylands, Cape Town South Africa: 1905 Lobatse Masjid Lobatse Botswana: 1960s [60] Founded by Indian Muslims who were brought over during the British colonial period.
[6] [7] During the twentieth century, some African Americans converted to Islam, mainly through the influence of black nationalist groups that preached with distinctive Islamic practices including the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded in 1913, [8] and the Nation of Islam, founded in the 1930s, which attracted at least 20,000 people by ...
Wallace Fard Muhammad appeared in Detroit in 1930, where he founded a new religious movement that came to be called the Nation of Islam. Both his origin and fate are uncertain. Nation of Islam tradition holds that Fard was born in Mecca, while scholars have considered a wide variety of possible origins and backgrounds.
During the twentieth century, some African Americans converted to Islam, mainly through the influence of Black nationalist groups that preached with distinctive Islamic practices; including the Moorish Science Temple of America, and the largest organization, the Nation of Islam, founded in the 1930s, which attracted at least 20,000 people by 1963.
PepsiCo settled a lawsuit out of court, and Jackson gave his $1.5 million settlement to the "Michael Jackson Burn Center" which was a piece of new technology to help people with severe burns. [4] Shortly afterward, Jackson was invited to the White House to receive an award presented by American President Ronald Reagan. The award was given for ...
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, W. D. Fard, Wallace D. Fard, or Master Fard Muhammad, among other names [3] (pronounced Far-odd / f ə ˈ r ɑː d /) [4] (reportedly born February 26, c. 1877 [5] [a] – disappeared c. 1934) was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
The history of Islam is believed by most historians [1] to have originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [2] [3] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.