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Additional authors

1. Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975.
2. Muhammad, Nathaniel.
3. Muhammad, Warith Deen, 1933-2008.
4. Farrakhan, Louis.
5. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

1. 82 videocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 17 audio recordings and 82 moving image recordings covering the period 1959-1976, which include sermons by various ministers of the Nation including Elijah Muhammad, Nathaniel Muhammad, and others.

Subject

1. Muslims > United States
2. African Americans > Religion
3. Black Muslims
4. World Community of al-Islam in the West
5. American Muslim Mission
6. Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)
7. Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975
8. Muhammad, Warith Deen, 1933-2008

Call number

1. SC MIRS Nation 08-03

Biography (note)

1. The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans. Elijah Muhammad became its spiritual leader after Fard's disappearance in 1934. Malcolm X, Muhammad's most famous disciple, helped build the Nation of Islam into a national membership organization, from which he resigned in 1964. After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, changed the name of the organization to "World Community of Islam in the West" and attempted to convert it to a mainstream Sunni Muslim ideology. In 1977, Louis Farrakhan rejected Warith Deen Mohammed's leadership and re-established the Nation of Islam using the original teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Nation of Islam archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Nation of Islam collection, 1959-1976. (Sc MG 780)

Author

1. Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) creator.

Title

1. Nation of Islam audio and moving image collection : 99 items.

Publisher

1. [2008]

Biography

1. The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans. Elijah Muhammad became its spiritual leader after Fard's disappearance in 1934. Malcolm X, Muhammad's most famous disciple, helped build the Nation of Islam into a national membership organization, from which he resigned in 1964. After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, changed the name of the organization to "World Community of Islam in the West" and attempted to convert it to a mainstream Sunni Muslim ideology. In 1977, Louis Farrakhan rejected Warith Deen Mohammed's leadership and re-established the Nation of Islam using the original teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Nation of Islam archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Nation of Islam collection, 1959-1976. (Sc MG 780)

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975.
2. Muhammad, Nathaniel.
3. Muhammad, Warith Deen, 1933-2008.
4. Farrakhan, Louis.
5. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. SC MIRS Nation 08-03