ABSTRACT
A survey of participants in the Million Man March was conducted on October 16, 1995, by a team of Howard University political science faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students, and private researchers. The importance of certain "messages" and the "messenger," the research indicates, is a function of socioeconomic-occupational location, which, in turn, is an objective indicator of a series of subjective "real world" experiences. This chapter concludes with a discussion of two questions that emerge from the data. First, do the indicators of racial solidarity in the "messages" deemed "very important" by the marchers constitute the foundations of an emerging black nationalism among African Americans? Second, given that Minister Louis Farrakhan is one of the most highly visible African Americans who is most closely associated with these messages of racial solidarity, what is his leadership potential of extending his attraction beyond the organizational boundaries of the Nation of Islam?.
