Nation of Islam (African American Civil Rights)
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 02-06-17 22:02
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- NOI (Nation of Islam)
- Founded in Detroit by Wallace Fard Muhammad and dominated until 1975 by Elijah Muhammad
- Expanded in 1950s due to Malcolm X
- Links with Islam
- Increased emotional appeal of NOI
- Belief AAs were chosen people of Allah and gave movement religious strength akin to power of Southern baptism behind SCLC
- Ideology much stronger than other civil rights organisations, as was its separation from support from white America or alignment with its values
- Much more spiritually intense atmosphere o both UNIA and NOI, matters of voter registration and equal political rights not priorities
- For members of NOI, efforts of King were demeaning spectacle of police hoses playing on passive black resisters were objects of hatred
- Achievements of Civil Rights Act seemed irrelevant when superiority and power of black race were not accepted
- Religious strength
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