When the Word is Given...: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim WorldLomax, Louis E.
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When the Word is Given...: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World
Lomax, Louis E.
Black Muslims
Al-Azhar University
Akbar Muhammad at, 97, 98
Elijah Muhammad at, 142
Alcohol, Malcolm X and, 58
Ali, John X, 84, 100, 104
administrative ability of, 93, 95
Allah
as black, 25-26, 62-63, 163-64
divine plagues of, 145
Elijah Muhammad as Messenger of, 54, 70, 132, 133, 135, 166, 169-71
as last Messenger, 111, 129
promised in Old Testament, 165
_See also_ Muhammad, Elijah
Fard as Prophet of, 54
_See also_ Fard, W. D.
has no “son,” 123-24
Islam as religion of, 113
a live God, 25, 125-28
Paradise of, 167
rebellion of Yakub against, 63-65, 71
Allen, Richard, 43-44
_And Then We Heard the Thunder_ (novel), 46
Anti-Semitism
Black Muslims and, 72-73, 201
Christianity and, 73-75
Arabic language
in Black Muslim services, 21
taught in University of Islam, 83
used by Akbar Muhammad, 98-99
Armageddon, Battle of, 22, 31, 79, 201
Muhammad’s teachings about, 55
“_As-Salaam-Alaikum_,” 21
Atlanta, Ga., 86
“Atlanta Speech” of Elijah Muhammad, 71, 109-29
Atlanta University, Malcolm X’s speech at, 70, 159-71
Attucks, Crispus, 68
Baldwin, James, 77, 79, 199
Bannaker, Benjamin, 68
Baptist Church
attacks slavery, 42
Negro churches founded, 43, 44
Bean pie, 20
Belafonte, Harry, 199
Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 36, 37
Bergson, Henri, 37
Bible
Fard’s use of, 48, 50
quoted by Elijah Muhammad, 119
quoted by Malcolm X, 143, 163-70, 193
as theological basis of Negro’s “inferiority,” 44-45, 59, 121
_See also_ Christianity
“Big Red,” _see_ Malcolm X
Birmingham, Ala., 29, 208
Black Muslim policy toward 1963 demonstrations, 85-87, 90
temple in, 21
Black, God as, 25-26, 62-63, 163-64
Black Bourgeoisie, 190-91
Black men
must become fearless, 111, 120, 122
by nature good, 22
as original men, 62-65, 113-15
as so-called Negroes, 115-16, 162-63
_See also_ Negroes
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