| LC control no. | n 85301442 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Farrakhan, Louis |
| Variant(s) | פאראקן, לואיס Charmer Faraḳan, Luʼis Farrakhan, Abdul Haleem Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan Walcott, Louis Eugene Wolcott, Louis Eugene X, Louis |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1933-05-11 |
| Place of birth | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Black Muslims Muslims--United States Black nationalism |
| Affiliation | Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) Operation PUSH (U.S.) Winston-Salem Teacher's College Mosque Maryam (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Profession or occupation | Mosque officers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His 7 speeches, 1974: t.p. (Minister Louis Farrakhan, natl. rep. of the hon. Elijah Muhammad) Luʼis Faraḳan, Umat ha-Islam ṿeha-Yehudim, 1996. Calypso cavalcade, vol. 2 [SR] 197-: label (Charmer, calypso vocalist) Wikipedia, Dec. 13, 2011: (Louis Farrakhan, b. Louis Eugene Walcott; in the 1950s, Walcott started his professional music career by recording several calypso albums as a singer under the name "The Charmer") Wikipedia, Dec. 20, 2013 (Louis Farrakhan; Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr., b. Louis Eugene Wolcott (also mistakenly spelled Walcott), May 11, 1933, in The Bronx; formerly known as Louis X) Britannica academic edition website, viewed Dec. 20, 2013 (Louis Farrakhan, in full Louis Abdul Farrakhan; original name Louis Eugene Walcott; b. May 11, 1933, Bronx, New York, NY; leader from 1978 of the Nation of Islam; joined Nation of Islam in 1955, changed his name to Louis X; protégé of Malcolm X at Temple No. 7 in Harlem; given his Muslim name, Abdul Haleem Farrakhan, by leader Elijah Muhammad and appointed head minister of Boston Temple No. 11; the Nation of Islam fragmented after Elijah Muhammad's death in Feb. 1975; Farrakhan led a breakaway group in 1978 which he also called the Nation of Islam) African American National Biography, accessed January 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Farrakhan, Louis Abdul; Louis Eugene Walcott; organization founder / official, Islamic leader, Nation of Islam adherent / leader; attended Winston-Salem Teacher's College; attend a meeting of the Nation of Islam (NOI) (1955); became the minister of Temple No. 11 in Boston (1959); national spokesman of the NOI; acquired the flagship mosque of the NOI in Chicago, which he renamed Mosque Maryam (1988); on the board of directors of Operation PUSH; the pinnacle of his influence was reached on 16 October 1995, when he convened the Million Man March, a mass gathering of black men on the Washington Mall for a day of atonement.; born 11 May 1933 in Bronx, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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