Elijah Muhammad #1115

Caption from poster__     NO ONE CAN DENY THE FACT THE   MR. ELIJAH MUHAMMAD  PERFORMED MIRACLES...   AND NO ONE ELSE HAS BEEN ABLE   TO DUPLICATE HIS SUCCESS AT   TURNING THE BLACK MAN INTO   SOMETHING RESPECTABLE AND   WORTHY OF PRAISE AND ADMIRATION.  ELIJAH MUHAMMAD KNEW HOW TO MOLD MEN!   Muhammad was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, as one of 13 children of Willie Poole (1868–1942) and Mariah Hall (1873–1958) both were tenant farmers (share croppers). At the age of 16 he left home and traveled about America. In 1917 he married Clara Evans, later to be known as Mother Clara Muhammad. In 1923 he finally settled in Detroit, Michigan where he worked at an automobile factory. The young Elijah Poole apparently witnessed three lynchings before the age of twenty, no doubt contributing to his grim evaluation of whites.[1] In the early 1930s, Muhammad became acquainted with a W.D. Fard also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad, whose followers consider to be Allah "in Person" (Theolog