Elijah Muhammad
American religious leader (1897-1975) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 77
Elijah Muhammad was an American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1933 until his death in 1975. Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam grew from a small Detroit-based movement into a nationwide organization with tens of thousands of members in the United States during the civil rights movement.
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The group promoted black nationalism and a distinctive theology which taught that white people were a race of "devils" created by an evil black scientist named Yakub, and that there were multiple gods, each a black man named Allah. Elijah Muhammad taught that he himself was the messenger of these gods.
