Elijah Muhammad, the visionary figure whose religious ideals and political actions helped shape African-American history in this century, was born in Georgia in 1897 and dreamed of living a better life than his slave ancestors. Here Clegg demonstrates that, as the head of the Nation of Islam for more than 40 years, Muhammad, heretofore ignored for decades by scholars and biographers, was one of the most significant African Americans of our time. of photos.
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Elijah Muhammad, the visionary figure whose religious ideals and political actions helped shape African-American history in this century, was born in Georgia in 1897 and dreamed of living a better life than his slave ancestors. Here Clegg demonstrates that, as the head of the Nation of Islam for more than 40 years, Muhammad, heretofore ignored for decades by scholars and biographers, was one of the most significant African Americans of our time. of photos.
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