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Louis Farrakhan

    A sky-blue graphic shows Louis Farrakhan’s smiling image in 1985. The text of the graphic reads POWER AT LAST/Farrakhan. The event it announces was to be held at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

    An image of Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, on a rally poster in 1985. Born in New York City in 1933 with the name Louis Eugene Walcott. After Elijah Muhammad’s son Wallace D. Muhammad reorganized the Nation of Islam as the Sunni Muslim Society of American Muslims, Farrakhan claimed Elijah’s mantle and his group adopted the name “The Nation of Islam” in 1981. Antiwhite separatism and anti-Semitism, consistent with Elijah Muhammad’s theology, mark Farrakhan’s version of NOI.

    1985
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    Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, Louis Farrakhan rally, New York City, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division