- Moved to Detroit, Michagon in 1923
- Some of Fard's doctrines referred to white people as the devils
- Muhammad was one of 13 children.
- He dropped out of school in 4th grade.
- He married Clara Evans in 1919 and had 8 children.
- Muhammad met Wallace D. Fard in 1931
- Poole converted to islam and adopted Fard's teachings.
- Fard gave Poole the name Elijah Muhammad.
Elijah Muhammad
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- Muhammad died of congestive heart failure.
- He left behind a thriving religous movement
- Two of his famous disciples were Malcom X and Louis Farrakhan
- Born on October 7th, 1897
- Original name was Robert Poole.
- Was born in poverty in Sandersville, Georgia.
- Muhammad was imprisoned from 1942 for 1946 for evading the draft
- He declared that Fard had been an incarnation of Allah and that he himself was now Allah’s messenger
- Fard disappeared mysteriouly in 1934
- Islam was divided into seven rivals
- Muhamad moved a group of followers to chicago