1, but only after battles with other potential leaders, including his brother. He settled with his wife in Detroit and started working in ‘the automobile industry’ (Wirth 2007). Particularly famous is the myth of Yakub. In fact, he reportedly stated ‘with tears in his eyes’ ‘Elijah Muhammad told me that I can’t go…I’m afraid, Ray…I’m real afraid’ (Beston 2017). (1897–1975) Person However, the religious leader did not recognise them as being discriminatory, since he believed he was simply stating the truth. While Muhammad was in prison, the growth of the Nation of Islam had stagnated, with fewer than 400 members remaining by the time of his release in 1946. Berg, H. (2017). 7 (1). However, through the conversion of his fellow inmates as well as renewed efforts outside prison, he was able to redouble his efforts and continue growing the Nation.Muhammad preached his own version of Islam to his followers in the Nation. The New York Times. In He preached that the Nation of Islam's goal was to return the stolen hegemony of the inferior whites back to blacks across America.By the 1970s, the Nation of Islam owned bakeries, barber shops, coffee shops, grocery stores, laundromats, night-clubs, a printing plant, retail stores, numerous real estate holdings, and a fleet of During his time as leader of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad had developed the Nation of Islam from a small movement in Detroit to an empire consisting of banks, schools, restaurants, and stores across 46 cities in America. The origins of the white race would come to be known as Yacub's History within Elijah Muhammad's teachings. Elijah's education ended at the third grade, after which he went to work in sawmills and brickyards.Moving his own family, parents and siblings, Elijah and the Pooles settled in the industrial north of While he was in Detroit, Poole began taking part in various Black Nationalist movements within the city. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah (or Robert) Poole on October 7, 1897, near Sandersville, Georgia. His life was colorful.
Moreover, Muhammad was Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali’s mentor.When Malcolm X started to gain more and more recognition and power within the Nation of Islam, he was ‘suspended’ from the organisation, and a year later – whilst giving a speech in New York City – he was murdered by the gunshots fired by the Nation of Islam members (Carter 2017).Elijah Muhammad was an oppressive and controlling leader, inspiring fear any one of his members that dared to go against his will.Muhammad Ali wanted to escape Malcolm X’s same tragic death. Elijah Muhammad (2006): 1. It is a terrible thing for such people to charge me with teaching race hatred when their feet are on my people’s neck and they tell us to our face that they hate black people. We provide high-quality teaching and revision materials for UK and international history curriculum. In fact, Fard strongly believed in the supremacy of black people and stated that ‘the white man is the devil’ (Mazucci 2005). Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilisations.[2.] It can be described as the merging of ‘traditional Islam with black nationalist’ ideologies (Melton 2004).
The ‘original’ man was black: therefore, the new-created man was stripped of the purity and goodness belonging to the black people, and was made into a ‘weak and wicked’ white (Mazucci 2005). In 1935, as these battles became increasingly fierce, Muhammad left Detroit and settled his family in Chicago.
. Like Marcus Garvey, Muhammad is building his Religious group on a nonwhite basis and like Garvey has irrefutable reasons for excluding whites. Nation of Islam.