BLACK MUSLIMS:
a remarkably successful NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT which began as a bizarre
CULT and developed into an ORTHODOX branch of ISLAM in North America. The group was
founded by F. W. Fard around 1930 and originally preached a race war against Whites in
which Blacks would be aided by spacemen. Under the able leadership of Elijah Muhammad and
his successors, the group has become increasingly Islamic and has reached out to embrace
the MUSLIM world. Today it is a fast growing movement with an impressive record of social
action among American Blacks. The most famous member of the movement was MALCOLM X who was
assassinated in 1965.
