by Davis, Ossie, Shabazz, Attallah, Handler, M. S., X, Malcolm, Haley, Alex
"In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam -- its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan."--Page 4 …
Author E. U. Essien-Udom aims to the common conception that the Nation of Islam and, by extension, all Black Nationalist movements, existed solely for political purposes and instead for poor urban blacks to attain a national identity, a sense of ethnic consciousness, and empower…
"Muslim slaves in the eighteenth-century colonies? Islam in antebellum America? Allan Austin, notes scholar of antebellum black writing and history, here tells the remarkable stories of dozens of African Muslims--all from sub-Saharan Africa, and none of them peasants--who were t…
