Louis farrakhan biography

Farrakhan blames Jews for the slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and general black oppression. Farrakhan’s tone grew more belligerent in June , when he sent letters to several leaders of the Jewish community as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that they acknowledge the evils they have perpetrated and that they work to further Farrakhan’s goals. The letter ended with a threat to “ruin and destroy your power and influence here and throughout the world” if his terms were not met.

In his own words

“The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters. … The Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress.&#;
­–Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, Feb. 25,

“And you do with me as is written, but remember that I have warned you that Allah will punish you. You are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood. You are not re

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Louis Farrakhan

American religious leader (born )

Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, ) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization.^[2][3] Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and for his rhetoric that has been widely denounced as antisemitic and racist.

Prior to joining the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. Early in his career, he served as the minister of mosques in Boston and Harlem and was appointed to the post of National Representative of the Nation of Islam by then-NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. He adopted the name Louis X before being named Louis Farrakhan.

After Warith Deen Mohammed reorganized the original NOI into the orthodox Sunni Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan began to rebuild the NOI as "Final Call". In , he officially adopted the name "Nation of Islam

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Born Louis Eugene Walcott (b. May 11, ), Farrakhan was originally a professional musician, but was introduced to the Black Muslim movement in and subsequently became a member of the Nation of Islam (NOI) in After his conversion, he left his musician career and slowly climbed the leadership ranks of the NOI in the s.

After his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, died in , NOI leadership was passed to his son, Warith Deen Muhammad, who decided to integrate the former NOI (i.e., American Muslim Mission) into more mainstream Islam. Upset by these changes, Farrakhan left the organization in and revitalized Elijah Muhammad’s distinct practices through his own rebranded Nation of Islam.

Since then, Farrakhan has reopened NOI mosques around the world and led the famous Million Man March in Though a powerful leader, he has received criti