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1932: Fard’s student, Elijah Muhammad, moves to Chicago and establishes Temple Number Two. Soon after, he opens Nation of Islam headquarters in the city.
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1947: Malcolm X joins the Nation of Islam and eventually becomes the national representative of Elijah Muhammad. -
1965: Malcom X shot and killed in New York City. -
1964: Muhammad Ali joins the Nation of Islam. He converts to mainstream Islam a decade later. -
1995: Hundreds of thousands of black men attend Farrakhan’s Million Man March in Washington, which aimed to encourage spiritual renewal and personal responsibility among black men.
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Farrakhan and W.D Mohammed embrace before thousands of followers at a Chicago meeting, calling for unity among members of their rival groups, Farrakhan undergoes surgery for prostate cancer. Experts begin to question whether the reunion has any lasting impact
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