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Elijah Muhammad

    Black and white photo of Elijah Muhammad in 1964, at podium microphones, wearing a male Muslim prayer hat.

    Elijah Muhammad, born Elijah Poole, a Great Migration migrant from Georgia, was founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Malcolm Little was a prison convert to NOI teachings.

    1 Jan. 1964
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    Public Domain
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    Photo by Stanley Wolfson, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division