Elijah Muhammad
Americannoun
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The New York Times was reporting on a “widespread legal attack on the state’s prison system” by followers of Elijah Muhammad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The Sudanese artist narrates the experiences that led him to wide acclaim as a painter challenging paradigms of African, Islamic and “Western” modernism, including encounters with Elijah Muhammad and the African American painter Hale Woodruff.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
His speech, in front of a large crowd of devotees, followed a contentious split he had with the Nation of Islam organization and its founder, Elijah Muhammad.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
Muhammad mysteriously vanished in 1934 and was succeeded by Elijah Muhammad, who led the Nation for the next 41 years.
From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2020
There is no fight between me and Elijah Muhammad.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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