The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. Claude Clegg III not only chronicles Muhammad's life, but also examines the history of American black nationalists and the relationship between Islam and the African American experience. Clegg charts Muhammad's early life, his brush with Jim Crow in the South, his rise to leadership of the Nation of Islam, and his tumultuous relationship with Malcolm X.