ABSTRACT
Fard's successor in the Nation of Islam was Elijah Muhammad whose emergence is recorded in the immediately preceding source. Elijah's teachings were much more widely spread once Malcolm X become a prominent minister in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s. Malcolm X (1925-1965), born Malcolm Little, had a Garveyite father; Malcolm was converted to the Nation of Islam while in prison and as part of a process of self-education and self-realization. Here he enunciates some of the Nation's core doctrines and presents Elijah Muhammad's version of Islam as an instrument of liberation and African-American dignity.
