ABSTRACT
What makes the Final Call to Islam and other early Nation of Islam (NOI) propaganda writing especially valuable for analysis is that they are not simple regurgitations of the NOI's doctrines that had been composed and codified by Wallace D. Fard. Early NOI propaganda, notably, does not give equal amounts of attention to each of the items discussed in the codified teachings. It is in fact the early NOI's intellectual and emotional world—as conveyed through its published propaganda—that defined and distinguished early NOI culture. The conversion of an attorney with advanced writing skills was a major coup for the early NOI—a group in which many of its members were illiterate. Most of the ideological assertions made in the early NOI propaganda can be divided into two groups: those that insist on the history of white evilness and deception and those that present a particular prophetic and apocalyptic understanding of the Bible and the Qur'an.
