Encyclopedia - Millions More Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Millions More Movement - Issues And Goals
Ten key issues identified by the movement organizers are: Unity, Spiritual Values, Education, Economic Development, Political Power, Rep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis Farrakhan: Encyclopedia - Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in Bronx, New York), is the leader of the largely black Nation of Islam. Walcott...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nation Of Islam: Encyclopedia - Nation Of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and socio-political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nation Of Islam: Encyclopedia Ii - Nation Of Islam - Beliefs And Theology
The official beliefs as stated by the Nation of Islam have been outlined in books, documents and articles published by the organization a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis Farrakhan: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis Farrakhan - Controversy
One of the most controversial quotes attributed to Farrakhan, and which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis Farrakhan: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis Farrakhan - Farrakhan And Classical Music
When Farrakhan first joined the NOI, he was asked by Elijah Muhammad to put aside his musical career. After 42 years of abstinence from p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nation Of Islam: Encyclopedia Ii - Nation Of Islam - Actions And Programs
The NOI has a "Do for self" philosophy, which resulted in the NOI owning and operating hundreds of businesses nationwide, employing thous...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nation Of Islam: Encyclopedia Ii - Nation Of Islam - Divergence From Mainstream Islam
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 (F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Lynch Speech: Encyclopedia Ii - William Lynch Speech - Text
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 s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement - 1600 - 1899
1676 unknown - Bacon's Rebellion involved some free and slave African-Americans (see also Racism in the United States). Early 1800s un...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949
1905 July 11 - First meeting of the Niagara Movement. 1909 February 12 - First National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Lynch Speech: Encyclopedia Ii - William Lynch Speech - Legacy
Believers in the authenticity of the William Lynch Speech see in it a critique of what they call "mental slavery" -- defined as a psychol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement - 1950 - 1959
1950 June 5 - In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents the Supreme Court ruled that a public institution of higher learning could not provi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement - 1960 - 1969
1960 February 1 - Four Black students sit at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparking six months of the Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of The American Civil Rights Movement - 1970 - Present
1971 unknown - The Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds desegregation busing of students to achi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millions More Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Millions More Movement - Leaders/co-convenors
Millions More Movement - National Co-Conveners partial list. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent So...   » Read the article