Research Paper on:
Biography of Elijah Muhammad

Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
base in Chicago in the 1930s managed to not only establish a number of temples around the country but also development a network of black farmers, merchants, hotels, grocery stores  and restaurants among other enterprises which allowed for opportunities within the African American population during the time of the Depression and long after. His beliefs and the Nation of Islam  were quite orthodox and conservative in regards to dress, eating and behavior. Muhammad and the Nation of Islam promoted the ideal of black supremacy, which had been taken by the  whites, and the development of a nation for African Americans in addition to the importance for education, dignity and empowerment of the black race. His movement inspired influential members such  as Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah (Robert) Poole on October 7, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia. His parents, William  (Wali) and Marie, were ex-slaves and worked as share croppers on a cotton plantation. His father was also a Baptist minister and the Poole eventually had 13 children. The children,  including Elijah had to quit school after the third grade to work in the fields and on the railroad but at the age of sixteen he left home to travel  and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Clara Evans also of Georgia and they had  eight children together: Emmanuel, Ethel, Lottie, Nathaniel, Herbert, Elijah Jr., Wallace and Akbar (Africa, Muhammad, 2001; NOI, 2003). In 1930, the founder of the Nation of Islam, Master W.D.  Fard Muhammad arrived in Detroit selling silk goods and meeting with African Americans from the Detroit to tell them of their ancestral "homeland" in Africa. Fard proclaimed that Islam was