Early Life/Career
Louis Farrakhan was born in Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx New York. Farrakhan was very smart, he won an scholarship to Winston-Salem Teacher's College. After two years he soon went to pursue his dream for music. He had a hit with the song "Jumbie Jamboree." But after performing in Chicago he started attending a Nation of Islam. A man named Elijah Muhammad started teaching Farrakhan about his religion. Soon in 1955 Elijah Muhammad right hand man Malcolm X.
Farrakhan rose up in the organization's hierarchy. He worked as assistant minister to Malcolm X at a Boston mosque and then took over Malcolm X's place
when he went to preach at the Nation of Islam mosque in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. The movement's leader, Elijah Muhammad, also bestowed a holy name upon him, calling him Farrakhan. When Malcolm X split from the group in 1964, Farrakhan quickly took his place, growing even closer to Elijah Muhammad. His relationship with Malcolm X turned bitter as Malcolm X started to speak about the group's divisive racial theology and possible abuses of power by Muhammad. Malcolm X was assassination by three members of the Nation of Islam were later arrested for Malcolm X's murder. Many believed that Farrakhan had something to do with the murder.
When Elijah Muhammad passed away he appointed as his son Warith Deen Mohammad as successor. Louis Farrakhan was not happy with this turn of events, and he eventually got out of the group.
Louis Farrakhan was born in Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx New York. Farrakhan was very smart, he won an scholarship to Winston-Salem Teacher's College. After two years he soon went to pursue his dream for music. He had a hit with the song "Jumbie Jamboree." But after performing in Chicago he started attending a Nation of Islam. A man named Elijah Muhammad started teaching Farrakhan about his religion. Soon in 1955 Elijah Muhammad right hand man Malcolm X.
Farrakhan rose up in the organization's hierarchy. He worked as assistant minister to Malcolm X at a Boston mosque and then took over Malcolm X's place
when he went to preach at the Nation of Islam mosque in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. The movement's leader, Elijah Muhammad, also bestowed a holy name upon him, calling him Farrakhan. When Malcolm X split from the group in 1964, Farrakhan quickly took his place, growing even closer to Elijah Muhammad. His relationship with Malcolm X turned bitter as Malcolm X started to speak about the group's divisive racial theology and possible abuses of power by Muhammad. Malcolm X was assassination by three members of the Nation of Islam were later arrested for Malcolm X's murder. Many believed that Farrakhan had something to do with the murder.
When Elijah Muhammad passed away he appointed as his son Warith Deen Mohammad as successor. Louis Farrakhan was not happy with this turn of events, and he eventually got out of the group.