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
Philadelphia, Pa., Negro churches organized in, 43-44
Phoenix, Ariz., Elijah Muhammad in, 94-95
Pike, Bishop James, 74
_Pittsburgh Courier_, 63
Police
arrest Fard, 53
in Hinton incident, 32-34
lawsuits against, 82
mentioned in “Atlanta Speech,” 109, 112-13, 115
_See also_ Muhammad, Elijah--arrests of
Politics
Black Muslims and
in Malcolm X’s “unity speech,” 154-55
possible future policy, 96-97
voting by Black Muslims, 91, 180, 210
“clergy-politician leadership,” 191-92
political apathy of Negro, 180, 187-88, 190-91
Poole, Elijah, _see_ Muhammad, Elijah
Pork, _see_ Dietary laws of Black Muslims
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 28, 44, 210
Prison
Black Muslim proselytizing in, 18
Black Muslim services in, 17, 140
Elijah Muhammad in, 54-55
Malcolm X in, 58
Prophet of Allah, 54
_See also_ Fard, W. D.
Protestants, _see_ Christianity
Punishment of Black Muslims, 80
Queens College, Malcolm X at, 172-78
Quran, 125, 166, 170
does not support Black Muslim teachings, 71
Fard’s use of, 50
Racism
of Black Muslims, 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
_See also_ Black men; White men
Christianity and
anti-Semitism, 73-75
in early American church, 42-44
theological justification for Negro “inferiority,” 44-45, 59
Radio programs of Black Muslims, 84
Rallies on street corners, 62-63
Religion
of African Negroes, 37-49
of American Negroes, 40-47
“clergy-politician leadership,” 191
Negro churches founded, 43-44
on plantations, 41-42
theology of desegregation, 87-90
theology of Negro church, 45-46
Black Muslim movement as, 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
as closed network of believers, 73-76
compassion in, 77-78
as group experience, 60-61
_See also_ Christianity
Restaurants, temple, 19-20, 79, 80
Revolutionary War, 68
Richmond, Va., Negro Baptist church organized in, 43
Rutherford, Joseph F. “Judge,” 50
_Sacred Ritual of the Nation of Islam, The_, 51
Sacrificial killing, 52-53
St. Louis, Mo., Malcolm X in, 173
Sampson, Judge Edyth, 83
Savannah, Ga., Negro Baptist church organized in, 43
Saviour, 54
_See also_ Fard, W. D.
Scientists
experiments of Yakub, 63-65
not supported by orthodox literature, 71
moon blown up by, 71, 114
as “Pharaoh’s Magicians,” 134
Searching of visitors to temples, 20
Segregation
in Detroit of 1930s, 47, 50
of Negro church, 43-46
_See also_ Desegregation
“Self,” knowledge of, 18-19, 50, 116-17, 120, 155
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