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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.
[5] [30] [better source needed] The Nation of Islam contests the claim that Wallace Fard Muhammad and Wallie Dodd Ford were the same person. [ 31 ] Ford was arrested by Los Angeles police on November 17, 1918, on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. [ 32 ]
The Moorish Science Temple of America is an American organization founded in 1913 by Noble Drew Ali, making it the oldest Islamic organization in the United States. Drew taught that black people were of Moorish origin but their Muslim identity was taken away through slavery and racial segregation , advocating the return to Islam of their ...
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 ...
Old Lights and New Lights (c. 1730 – 1740) were terms first used during the First Great Awakening in British North America to describe those that supported the awakening (New Lights) and those who were skeptical of the awakening (Old Lights). [a] [3] [4] River Brethren (1770). Methodist Episcopal Church (1783). Universalist Church of America ...
July 4 – Nation of Islam founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in Detroit. July 21 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established. July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
Jews also played leadership roles on both sides, with nine Jewish generals serving in the Union Army, the most notable of whom were brigadier generals Edward S. Salomon (who attained the rank at the age of 29) and Frederick Knefler. [30] [31] There were also twenty-one Jewish colonels who fought for the Union, including Marcus M. Spiegel of Ohio.
Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah, two related kingdoms that emerged in the Levant during the Iron Age.