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  1. Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1933 until his death in 1975. [1] [2] [3] Muhammad was also the teacher and mentor of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan ...

  2. Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897. He was one of 13 children of William and Mariah (Hall) Poole. His father was a sharecropper and his ...

  3. Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad (born Oct. 7, 1897, Sandersville, Ga., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1975, Chicago) was the leader of the black separatist religious movement known as the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslims) in the United States.. The son of sharecroppers and former slaves, Muhammad moved to Detroit in 1923 where, around 1930, he became assistant minister to the founder of the sect, Wallace ...

  4. Biography Sketch: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

    Biography Sketch: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Thirty-four years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was born on or about October 7, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia. The exact date of his birth remains unknown because record keeping in rural Georgia for the descendants of slaves was not kept ...

  5. Elijah Muhammad Biography

    Early life Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah (or Robert) Poole on October 7, 1897, near Sandersville, Georgia. His parents were former slaves who worked as sharecroppers (farming the owner's land for a share of the crops) on a cotton plantation; his father was also a Baptist preacher.

  6. Elijah Muhammad

    Muhammad, Elijah 1879-1975. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Elijah Muhammad was born on or about October 7, 1879, in Sandersville, Georgia, as Elijah Poole into a family with thirteen siblings.In his late teens or very early twenties he married Clara Evans, with whom he had eight children. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1929 or 1930 to find employment, as did many blacks during the Great Migration from the ...

  7. Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975)

    Elijah Muhammad, the most prominent leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897.He was the son of sharecropper and Baptist minister Wallace Poole and his wife, Mariah. During his childhood in the racially segregated South, Poole received his basic education at a public school but soon dropped out to help his family earn a living in ...

  8. Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897

    Elijah Muhammad, known as the most prominent leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia. Muhammad grew up in the segregated South and worked alongside his family as a sharecropper. In 1917, he married Clara Evans and by 1923, Muhammad and his wife moved to Detroit, Michigan in order to find better living and employment opportunities. Once in Detroit ...

  9. Elijah Muhammad

    A biography of Elijah Muhammad with a particular focus on his relationships and interactions with important members of the Nation of Islam and figures in the civil rights movement. Employs the FBI files and focuses on the agency's surveillance and interference with the Nation of Islam. Halasa, Malu. Elijah Muhammad: Religious Leader. New York ...

  10. Elijah Muhammad, the Leader of the Nation of Islam

    Femi Lewis. Updated on May 30, 2019. For more than forty years, human rights activist and Muslim minister, Elijah Muhammad stood at the helm of the Nation of Islam—a religious organization that combined the teachings of Islam with a strong emphasis on morality and self-sufficiency for African-Americans. Muhammad, a devout believer in Black ...

  11. Elijah Muhammad

    Muhammad speaking in 1964. Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) was an African-American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali; and his son Warith Deen Mohammed . Muhammad was born on October 7, 1897 ...

  12. The Elijah Mohammad Story

    Elijah Muhammad, the most prominent leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897. He was the son of sharecropper and Baptist minister Wallace Poole and his wife, Mariah. During his childhood in the racially segregated ….

  13. Elijah Muhammad Biography

    Childhood & Early Life. Elijah Muhammad was born on October 7, 1897, in Sandersville, Georgia, into a poor African-American family of former slaves. During the days of slavery, his father, William Poole Sr., worked in the cotton farms as a sharecropper. After the abolition of slavery, he became a Baptist preacher.

  14. Biography Of Elijah Muhammad : NPR

    Talk of the Nation looks back at the life of Elijah Muhammad the man who led the Nation of Islam for four decades. The first biography of Muhammad's life traces his humble beginnings on a farm in ...

  15. 2 The Life of Elijah Muhammad

    The sources for reconstructing the life of Elijah Muhammad must be used with caution. Given that Elijah Muhammad is a religious figure who arose so recently, the need for caution may seem surprising. For the most part, however, our early biographical information comes from only two main sources. The first is the Nation of Islam and consists ...

  16. Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam

    Re-named Elijah Muhammad and referred to him as God's Messenger, Poole established a new temple in Chicago, the city that would become the Nation of Islam's headquarters. Pale and wiry, Elijah ...

  17. The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), born Elijah Poole, dreamed of living a better life than his slave ancestors. However, by the time he arrived in Detroit in 1923, the bitter hatred and lynchings of the South had become a part of his consciousness, and the urban poverty and rank discrimination he encountered in the North further ignited his ire and indignation.

  18. Biography: Elijah Muhammad

    The Honorable Minister Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) can be seen as one of the most influential men of the 20th century. Using the Nation of Islam's religious ...

  19. Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad was an African American religious leader of the Nation of Islam, a religious movement based on the principles of Islam, focused specifically on black Muslims. His birth name was Elijah Robert Poole and he was the seventh of thirteen children born to William and Mariah Poole. His parents were Baptist sharecroppers.

  20. The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

    The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad is impressive, punctiliously researched, and persuasively argued. In telling Elijah Muhammad's story, Claude Clegg III has created a tour de force study of African American life and culture in the twentieth century.--Michael A. Gomez, New York University

  21. Nation of Islam

    Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad (born Oct. 7, 1897, Sandersville, Ga., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1975, Chicago) was the leader of the black separatist religious movement known as the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslims) in the United States. The son of sharecroppers and former slaves, Muhammad moved to Detroit in 1923 where, around 1930 ...

  22. Louis Farrakhan

    Early life and education. Farrakhan, who is Black, was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933 in The Bronx, New York City. He is the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning (1900-1988) and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Anglo-Caribbean islands. His mother was born in Saint Kitts, while his father was Jamaican.The couple separated before their second son was born, and Walcott says he ...

  23. Louis Farrakhan

    When Elijah Muhammad died in February 1975, the Nation of Islam fragmented. The Nation's leadership chose Wallace Muhammad (now known as Warith Deen Mohammed), the fifth of Elijah Muhammad's six sons, as the new supreme minister.Disappointed that he was not named Elijah Muhammad's successor, Farrakhan led a breakaway group in 1978, which he also called the Nation of Islam and which ...

  24. Elijah Muhammad

    Elijah Muhammad (né Elijah Robert Poole le 7 octobre 1897 et mort le 25 février 1975) était un chef religieux américain. S'étant autoproclamé messager de Allah , il était le dirigeant de la Nation of Islam (NOI), une organisation religieuse musulmane, nationaliste noire nord-américaine [ 1 ] et suprémaciste [ 2 ] .

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