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Books by Elijah Muhammad
Message
to the Blackman in America (1997)
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How to Eat to Live, Book 1 (1997) /
How to Eat to Live, Book 2 (1997)
Yakub: The Father of Mankind (2002) /
The True history of Master Fard Muhammad (1997)
The History of Jesus' Bith, Death and What It Means to You and
Me (1996) /
The Secrets of Freemasonry (1997)
The Theology of Time (The Secrets of Time) (2004) /
The Mother Plane (1996)
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The Achievements of Elijah Muhammad
(1897-1975) Elijah Muhammad, the 77-year-old leader of
“The Nation of Islam,” died February 25, one day before the
Black Muslim sect’s Savior day observance. He had been at the
helm of the controversial black separatist movement for 40
years. During that time the Black Muslims grew from a handful of
embittered urban blacks to an estimated 150,000 loyal followers
– 20,000 of whom were present at his funeral in Chicago
recently.
Throughout the civil rights era, when
integration was the clearly stated goal of most of the
country’s black leaders, Muhammad espoused separatism and
still managed to keep his movement afloat. He also survived
several internal disruptions, chief among which was the
defection and eventual assassination of Malcolm X. Credited with
a rare ability to rehabilitate drug addicts and incorrigible
criminals, Muhammad built 75 Muslim temples in at least 50
cities by preaching the myth that blacks are the earth’s
“original” people and that whites are “devils.”
Under his rigidly centralized authority, the
Black Muslims developed hundreds of small businesses around the
country – restaurants, dry cleaning establishments, beauty
shops, grocery stores and bakeries. An estimated 25,000 acres of
land, mostly in the south, is owned by the sect. The total
assets of the Nation of Islam have been valued at $80 million
– no mean achievement for the former laborer who had only a
fourth-grade education.
The tremendous economic success of the Black
Muslims led later to a softening of their antiwhite tenets and
an increased emphasis on hard work and self-mastery. Muhammad
apparently discovered that it was more productive to combat the
demons within than those without. That shift in motivation might
well be the reason for the relatively peaceful changeover in
leadership to one of his six sons, 41-year-old Wallace D.
Muhammad. Most outside observers expected a protracted and
violent power struggle for leadership, as is so often the case
when absolute rulers die.
What will happen to the Black Muslims in the
future is hard to foretell, but their puritanical spirit and
economic successes have impressed black leaders who once made
only disparaging remarks about the movement. Such civil rights
luminaries as Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Roy Wilkins and Vernon
Jordan are now heaping extravagant praises upon the departed
Elijah Muhammad, lauding him for presenting “to black people a
model of thrift, of hard work, of devotion to self, and of
cleanliness of mind and body.” Even Chicago’s white mayor,
Richard J. Daley, sensing widespread black respect for Muhammad,
said, “He was an outstanding citizen who was always interested
in helping young people and especially the poor.”
Such lavish praise from former detractors
demonstrates how much everyone loves a winter – especially
someone who was willing to take society’s losers and make
winners out of them. Said Father George Clements, pastor of
Chicago’s Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church: “His teachings
of dignity, self-respect, discipline and a sense of
responsibility are great works he leaves behind. And this we
admire no matter what our religion.”
Source: The
Christian Century (March 26, 1975) * * * *
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Elijah Muhammad,
born Elijah Poole 7 October 1897, in Sandersville, Ga., U.S.,
died 25 February 1975 in Chicago, the son of sharecroppers and
former slaves. In 1923 Muhammad moved to Detroit where, around
1930, he became assistant minister to the founder of the sect,
Wallace D. Fard, at Temple No. 1. In 1934, when Fard disappeared
Muhammad became head of the movement, with the title
"Minister of Islam." Because of troubles within the
Detroit temple, Muhammad moved to Chicago where he established
Temple No. 2. During World War II he advised followers to avoid
the draft, as a result of which he was charged with violating
the Selective Service Act and was jailed (1942-46).
Muhammad slowly built up the membership of the Black
Muslims. His most prominent disciple, Malcolm X, broke with the
group and, before his assassination in 1965.
After Muhammad's death in 1975, the Nation of Islam
split into what once known as the American Muslim Mission, now
part of the worldwide orthodox Muslim community, and a
resurrected Nation of Islam under the leadership of Louis
Farrakhan. |
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1963_Debate Malcolm X_With_James_Baldwin.mp3 /
James Baldwin on Malcolm X (1 of 3)
James Baldwin on Malcolm X (2 of 3) /
James Baldwin on Malcolm X (3 of 3)
Malcolm X exposing Elijah Muhammad days before his
assassination /
Malcolm X—On His Break with Elijah Muhammad
What Malcolm X did not tell you!!! The Wives
Speak 1
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What Malcolm X did not tell you!!! The Wives
Speak 2
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Elijah Muhammad confronts infidelity charges
The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad addressing the laborers in a meeting
that took place around September or October of 1964.
In this meeting The Messenger mentions that Brother
Ben and his wife can bare witness to his moral
character and that he would never fall for the many
women that would come onto him during his younger
days. The Messenger based off his own words could
have had plenty of women when he was a young man
full of energy. In other words why would he wait
until he is old to have this all of a sudden urge to
mess around with other women young enough to be his
daughter or granddaughter? The Messenger in this
meeting wanted to stress to the laborers to defend
him when he is attacked by claims like this.
The attacks The Messenger is referring to involved
the false charges by Malcolm and the 7 secretaries
claiming he fathered their children. This is what he
meant by mud-slinging and scandalizing. Malcolm’s
goal with the help of Wallace behind the scenes was
to disgrace The Messenger and take over the
leadership and all its assets.
The Messenger in the September 11th 1964 edition of
the Muhammad Speaks Newspaper informed us that two
of the women involved in this scheme (Evelyn and
Lucille) use to date Malcolm before he joined the
NOI. Evelyn and Lucille joined the NOI because of
their affection for Malcolm. It was Wallace and
Malcolm who put these women (all seven of them) up
to harassing The Messenger (especially OLA) by
trying to extort money out of him and threatening to
take him to court. It was Ola, Evelyn and Lucille
who were the most aggressive in attempting this
plot.
The first child born out these seven women was Saudi
Muhammad in January of 1960. The Last child born out
of the seven women was Neemah Cushmeer Muhammad in
1965. Keep in mind that from 1960 to 1975 The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad maintained that he had one
wife, six sons and two daughters. If we are to
accept the view that they were divinely appointed by
God. This would mean Elijah Muhammad lied to every
interviewer who would asked him about his private
life between that time.
If someone has 8 wives and 21 children but claims in
an interview and to the public that he only had one
wife, six sons and two daughters. The following is
called lying to the 10th degree. We are taught in
Islam that Messengers and prophets cannot be accused
of lying. Elijah Muhammad could not be qualified to
be a Messenger if he lied as a Messenger. The
following has never happened in the history of
prophets and messengers.
What is even more strange about this claim of these
women fulfilling some divine prophecy is that out of
all the women on the planet, God would choose two
women who dated an enemy of Elijah Muhammad (Malcolm
Little). Two out of the seven women involved were
not even pure and had a history with Malcolm before
they ever claimed to have been with Elijah Muhammad.
Something is wrong with this picture.
In continuing to dissect this strange claim even
further. Bernique Cushmeer (the so-called 7th wife)
had a child with Benard Cushmer after she claimed to
have had a child with Elijah Muhammad. Now why would
a divinely appointed woman desire another man
outside of the apostle of God? What is even stranger
is that Benard Cushmer claimed he did not know that
she was the concubine of Elijah Muhammad when he had
relations with her. Why didn't God take the thought
of desiring this so-called divinely appointed woman
away from any man who came in contact with her?
Why would God put Ola (the so-called third wife) in
a position wherein she would have to call the police
to try and force Elijah Muhammad to acknowledge her
and her child? Why would Elijah Muhammad put his
so-called divine wife out on the street? If we are
to believe Elijah Muhammad married these women, when
did it happen? Was there an underground behind the
scenes secret ceremony nobody else knew about? There
are 2 choices a believer in the NOI can take or
accept about this topic.
1. Accept what Elijah Muhammad says about himself on
face value and leave it at that. or
2. Accept an alternative view that would make him
out to be an outright liar.
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Malcolm X
artifacts unearthed—Police docs and more found among
belongs of 'Shorty' Jarvis—1 February
2012—Documents outlining the crime that landed
Malcolm X in prison in the 1940s are among some
1,000 recently unearthed items purchased jointly by
the civil rights leader's foundation and an
independent collector of African-American artifacts.
The documents and other artifacts belonged to late
musician Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, who served in
prison with Malcolm X and was one of his closest
friends. Jarvis' 1976 pardon paper also is part of
the collection, which was recently discovered by
accident. The items had been in a Connecticut
storage unit that had gone into default, and were
initially auctioned off to a buyer who had no idea
what he was bidding on. The Omaha, Nebraska-based
Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, which oversees the
Malcolm X Center located at his birthplace, will
house and display the just-arrived archives. It
split the cost with Black History 101 Mobile Museum,
based in Detroit—the birthplace of the Nation of
Islam.—Mobile Museum founder and curator Khalid
el-Hakim declined to identify the original buyer or
the price the two organizations paid for the trove.
Still, even after splitting the cost, he said it's
the largest acquisition to date for his mobile
museum, which includes Jim Crow-era artifacts, a Ku
Klux Klan hood and signed documents by Malcolm X and
Rosa Parks. . . . The collection also reveals an
enduring connection between the two Malcolms after
their incarceration, Malcolm X's conversion to Islam
and his rise to prominence. There's a 72-page
scrapbook of Malcolm X's life that was maintained by
Jarvis until after his friend's 1965 assassination.
One of the civil rights era's most controversial and
compelling figures, Malcolm X rose to fame as the
chief spokesman of the Nation of Islam, a movement
started in Detroit more than 80 years ago. He
proclaimed the black Muslim organization's message
at the time: racial separatism as a road to
self-actualization and urged blacks to claim civil
rights "by any means necessary" and referred to
whites as "devils."—TheGrio
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Elijah Muhammad lied about W Fard Muhammad
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W.D.Muhammad Tells how His own father Elijah feared
Malcolm
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Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
By
Manning Marable
Years
in the making-the definitive biography of
the legendary black activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century
American history perhaps none is more
complex and controversial than Malcolm X.
Constantly rewriting his own story, he
became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and
an icon, all before being felled by
assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine.
Through his tireless work and countless
speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands
of black Americans to create better lives
and stronger communities while establishing
the template for the self-actualized,
independent African American man. In death
he became a broad symbol of both resistance
and reconciliation for millions around the
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Manning Marable's
new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement.
Filled with new information and shocking revelations
that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a
sweeping story of race and class in America, from the
rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the
struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties
and sixties.
Reaching into
Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his
parents' activism through his own engagement with the
Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the
world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the
never-before-told true story of his assassination.
Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of
the most singular forces for social change, capturing
with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in
the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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