The Life of Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad lived through some of the most racially turbulent times in American history. He was born in 1897—a time of Jim Crow segregation and lynchings. As a young man, he experienced the worst of southern racism and eyewitnessed two separate lynchings. Later, he would be part of the Great Mig...

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1. Verfasser:	Berg, Herbert
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	Elijah Muhammad lived through some of the most racially turbulent times in American history. He was born in 1897—a time of Jim Crow segregation and lynchings. As a young man, he experienced the worst of southern racism and eyewitnessed two separate lynchings. Later, he would be part of the Great Migration of over a million African Americans to the northern United States to escape the racism and poverty of the rural South. He discovered, along with the other migrants, that the North was also rife with racism. And, with the onset of the Great Depression, the North experienced poverty