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Jun 27, 2018 · Chicago, Illinois. African American religious leader. Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam ("Black Muslims") during their period of greatest growth in the mid-twentieth century. He was a major promoter of independent, black-operated businesses, institutions, and religion.
Apr 1, 2021 · Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) 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 ...
Dec 15, 2007 · 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.
Chicago, Illinois. African American religious leader. Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam ("Black Muslims") during their period of greatest growth in the mid-twentieth century. He was a major promoter of independent, black-operated businesses, institutions, and religion. Early life.
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. MUHAMMAD, ELIJAH (1897–1975)From the 1930s until his death, Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam, the most prominent African-American Muslim organization of the post–World War II era.
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 current, according to historians and family members.
Mar 17, 1997 · March 17, 199712:00 AM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. Audio will be available later today. Talk of the Nation looks back at the life of Elijah Muhammad the man who led the Nation of Islam for...
