Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad was an AfricanAmerican religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, and his son, Warith Deen Mohammed.

Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the seventh of thirteen children to William Poole, Sr. , a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall , a homemaker and sharecropper.

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