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Wallace ford Muhammad born
born February 26, 1877 Wallace fard Muhammad was one of the co-founders of the Nation of Islam. He came to Detroit in 1930 with a strange background and numerous aliases, and taught an new form of Islam to members of the city's black population.
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Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Robert Poole was born October 7, 1897, and later changed his name to Elijah Muhammad. He was an African American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until he died in 1975. He also mentored Malcolm X. -
Malcolm X born 1925
Malcolm X born 1925 and died 1965 was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the most unthinkable terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence.
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Beliefs
The beliefs of the NOI are different than modern day Islam because they lean more towards black nationalism, getting freedom, full equal opportunity and equal justice under the law. They believed that they should all be together as one through beleifs rather than integrated through society. -
Problems
There was a lot of hate from other people that did not agree with their beliefs. The people of the NOI were being persecuted against because of what they were fighting for. Both sides became very extreme towards another to get what the wanted. -
When NOI was founded
The Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan, on July 4, 1930 by a man named Wallace D. Fard Muhammad. abbreviated as NOI. NOI is an African American political and religious movement.
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Malcolm X begins preaching in 1952
“What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist.”
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Malcolm X breaks ties with NOI
Once Malcolm X found out that his mentor was indulging in secret relationships with six other women that began to make Malcolm loyalty to Elijah weaker. When President Kennedy was assassinated Malcolm X made a comment on loud criticism and was silenced by Elijah. Malcolm ended up not being able to follow Elijah because of his deceptions and began his own religious group the Muslim Mosque inc. -
Malcolm X journey to mecca
On April 13, 1964, Malcolm X left the United States on a personal and spiritual journey through the Middle East and West Africa. he returned on May 21, he’d visited Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, and Algeria. He’d experienced what amounted to his second life-changing epiphany as he accomplished the Hajj, or passage to mecca -
Million man march
led by the Minister Louis Farrakhan, more than a million Black men gathered in Washington, D.C. to declare their right to justice. On that day, Monday, October 16, 1995 there was a wall of black men many who stood for 10+ hours. sharing, learning, listening, crying, and praying. “The Million Man March was one of the most historic organizing and mobilizing events in the history of Black people in the United States,” said Dr.Conrad Worrill, who happen to be one of the main organizers. NOI.org
