Black Muslim Movement

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | 700+ words | Copyright

Black Muslim Movement An Islamic organization in the USA. It was founded in 1930 and led by Elijah Muhammad from 1934 until his death in 1975. The Movement expanded greatly in the 1950s when MALCOLM X became one of its spokesmen; by the 1960s, at the height of the BLACK POWER MOVEMENT, it probably had over 100,000 members. With the suspension of Malcolm X from the Movement and his assassination in 1965, it lost some of its influence to the Black Panthers, but continued to establish separate Black enterprises and to provide a source of inspiration for thousands of Black Americans. Elijah Muhammad was succeeded in 1975 by his son, Wallace D. Muhammad, who advocated a more moderate form of Islam and racial integration. This led to disagreements within the Movement and in 1976 it split into the American Muslim Mission and the radical Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan.

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