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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated April 14, 1961 partially reads, "Negro Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, in Los Angeles for his first integrated press conference, today called for founding of an all-Negro country within the United States. The Chicago chief of the aggressive movement estimated his following at 200,000 American Negroes. He predicted that by 1970 most of the 20 million United States Negroes will be 'resurrected into the knowledge of Islam.' Grandson of a Georgia slave and christened Elijah Poole, the 63-year-old Muslim said his religion is identical with the Moslems, who have disavowed him."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Elijah Muhammad,--1897-1975 Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) Black Muslims--California--Los Angeles African American civil rights workers--United States African American political activists--United States African Americans--Civil rights--United States Press conferences--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Valley Times Collection photographs
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