Ten key issues identified by the movement organizers are: Unity, Spiritual Values, Education, Economic Development, Political Power, Reparations, Prison Industrial Complex, Health, Artistic/ Cultural Development, Peace[1] In an "Open Letter on the Millions More Movement," Minister Louis Farrakhan stated in part, For the first time in our history, those of us of different ideologies, philosophies, methodologies, denominati ...

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Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in Bronx, New York), is the leader of the largely black Nation of Islam. Walcott was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston. His mother had emigrated from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York but was not involved in his upbringing. As a child, he received training as a violinist. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had playe ...

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The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and socio-political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 with a declared aim of "resurrecting" the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the black man and woman of America and the world. Minister Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of a reconstituted Nation of Islam, the original organization being renamed and eventually dissolved by Warith Deen Muhammad. The Nation of Islam's The National Center and headquarters is located i ...

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• Nation of Islam - Legend of the 1975 death/ disappearance of Elijah Muhammad
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The official beliefs as stated by the Nation of Islam have been outlined in books, documents and articles published by the organization as well as speeches by Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and other ministers. Many of Elijah Muhammad's teachings may be found in "Message to the Blackman in America" and "The True History of Jesus as Taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad" (Chicago: Coalition for the Remembrance of Elijah, 1992). Many of Malcolm's X's teachings of NOI theology are in his "The End of White World Supremacy", while a later more critical discussion of those beliefs can be found in his "The ...

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One of the most controversial quotes attributed to Farrakhan, and which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate, was, "Hitler was a very great man." Farrakhan made this statement in response to a Jewish journalist at The Village Voice referring to him as a "Black Hitler": "So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler ...

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When Farrakhan first joined the NOI, he was asked by Elijah Muhammad to put aside his musical career. After 42 years of abstinence from playing the violin Farrakhan decided to take it up once more, particularly due to the urging of prominent classical musician Sylvia Olden Lee. In early 1993, Farrakhan made his concert debut with performances of the Violin Concerto in E Minor by Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn, which was widely seen as a response to his critics, such as the Anti ...

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The NOI has a "Do for self" philosophy, which resulted in the NOI owning and operating hundreds of businesses nationwide, employing thousands of people. The NOI has purchased and now operates food industry services, bakeries and restaurants. It owns a large amounts of farmland in Georgia, USA. It owns and operates hair care shops. Some of these business ventures have been success stories. Others have been criticised as Amway-style marketing ...

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NOI is viewed by some Muslims as deviant. The reason cited is that the NOI has taught that God would manifest himself in a human being (Fard Muhammad) -- in Islam, the most central article of faith is the statement, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet". Some Muslims have used the pejorative term Farrakhanism to express redicule of the organization. Like mainstream Islam, the Nation of Islam preaches adherence to the "five pillars of the (Islamic) faith": salat, or prayer, five times daily facing due E ...

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The text of William Lynch Speech reads: Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with the niggers. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the ...

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1676 unknown - Bacon's Rebellion involved some free and slave African-Americans (see also Racism in the United States). Early 1800s unknown - first Black Codes enacted. 1849 unknown - Roberts v. Boston was a lawsuit seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. 1852 March 20 - The book Uncle Tom's Cabin published. 1857 March 6 - In Dred Scott v. Sandford the Supreme Court upholds slave ...

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1905 July 11 - First meeting of the Niagara Movement. 1909 February 12 - First National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meeting scheduled. 1910 September 29 - National Urban League founded. 1915 June 21 - In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled against grandfather clauses used to deny Blacks the vote. 1919 summer - Red Summer of 1919 riots. Se ...

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Believers in the authenticity of the William Lynch Speech see in it a critique of what they call "mental slavery" -- defined as a psychological state of submissiveness rather than a physical bondage. Lynch's alleged method used to cause hatred between the slaves was a deep division in regard to the skin tones of the slaves. "Light-skinned" blacks are believed to have fared better under the conditions of slavery given this doctrine; being allowed tasks requiring authority over other slaves, and were generally assinged to task within th ...

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1950 June 5 - In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents the Supreme Court ruled that a public institution of higher learning could not provide different treatment to a student solely because of their race. June 5 - In Sweatt v. Painter the Supreme Court ruled that a separate-but-equal Texas law school was actually unequal, partly in that it isolated the students from the majority of other future lawyers. 1951 April 23 - High school students in Farmville, Virginia go on strike: the case Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County is hea ...

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1960 February 1 - Four Black students sit at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparking six months of the Greensboro Sit-Ins. April - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed in Raleigh, North Carolina. May 6 - Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed. May - Nashville sit-ins. December 5 - In Boynton v. Virginia the Supreme Court held that racial segregation in public transportation was illegal because such segregation violated the Inter ...

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1971 unknown - The Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds desegregation busing of students to achieve integration. 1973 February 27 - Start of 71-day standoff at Wounded Knee between federal authorities and members of the American Indian Movement. 1974 July 25 - In Milliken v. Bradley, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision held that outlying districts could only be forced into a desegregation busing plan if there was a pattern of vi ...

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Millions More Movement - National Co-Conveners partial list. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, Hip Hop Summit Action Network Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Skinner Leadership Institute Dr. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women Dr. Conrad Worrill, National Black United Front Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Party Charles Steele, Southern Christian ...

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