When the Word is Given...: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim WorldLomax, Louis E.
Religion
When the Word is Given...: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World
Lomax, Louis E.
Black Muslims
Black Muslim movement
“Americanized,” 131
business activities of, 79-80
restaurants, 19-20, 79, 80
converts to, 30-31
“crisis system” of, 34
dietary laws of, 80
filthiness of pork, 27, 117
restaurants, 19-20
in teachings of Fard, 48
do not preach violence, 203-4
dress of, 19, 78
Akbar’s sheet, 66
education by, _see_ Muslim Girls Training Class; Universities
of Islam
finances of, 79
fund-raising, 82
Fruit of Islam, _see_ Fruit of Islam, The
future of, 95-106
successor to Muhammad, 104-6
history of, 35, 47-58
Chicago headquarters set up, 58
Fard disappears, 53-54
founded by Fard, 48-51
Japanese proselytization, 54
Malcolm X joins movement, 55-58
Muhammad and Fard, 52-54
Jews and, 72-73, 201
lawsuits of, 82
ministers of
Chief Minister of Islam, 52
Fruit of Islam and, 81-82
supervise restaurants, 79
morality of, 58, 80-81, 153
Negro unity and
Akbar Muhammad’s speech, 99-103
belief that Negro Revolt will fail, 92, 96, 207-9
Birmingham policy, 85-87, 90
Malcolm X’s “unity speech,” 149-58
value of Black Muslims to Negro Revolt, 87
number of members, 18
opposing factions in
Akbar and Malcolm X, 102-3
Muhammad vs. Detroit faction, 53, 54
“New York-Chicago” cleavage, 94-95
orthodox Moslems and, _see_ Moslems
politics and
in Malcolm X’s “unity speech,” 154-55
possible future policy, 96-97
voting by Black Muslims, 91, 180, 210
punishments in, 80
racial teachings of, 201-2
opposition to race-mixing, 156, 178, 191, 198-99
orthodox Muslim objections, 70-71
separation does not mean being anti-white, 132, 181, 188-89
radio programs of, 84
as a religion, 17, 59-78
_The Sacred Ritual of the Nation of Islam_, 51
theology, 62-65, 71
why it is a religion, 76-78
_See also_ Allah; Black men; Muhammad, Elijah--teaching of;
White men
sacrificial killing in, 52-53
services of, _see_ “Teachings” in temples
temples of, _see_ Temples of Islam
women in, 81
separated in temples, 20-21
_See also_ Girls in Black Muslim movement
_Black Muslims in America, The_, 12
Black supremacy not taught by Black Muslims, 132, 181
Blackboard in temples, 22
Blood, Drew discovers how to preserve, 68
Boston, Mass.
Malcolm X’s speeches in, 130-48, 173
Negro Baptist church in, 44
Boston Massacre, 68
Breasted’s _The Conquest of Civilization_, 50
Business activities of Black Muslim movement, 79-80
temple restaurants, 19-20, 79, 80
Cairo, Egypt
Malcolm X in, 71-72
_See also_ Al-Azhar University
Catholic Church, 43
anti-Semitism and, 73-74
Caucasian race, 136
_See also_ White men
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