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member of a religious group founded 1929 in
the US and led, from 1934, by Elijah Mohammed
(then Elijah Poole) (1897-1975) after he had
a vision of Allah. Its growth from 1946 as a
black separatist organization was due to
Malcolm X, the son of a Baptist minister who,
in 1964, broke away and founded his own
Organization for African-American Unity,
preaching `active self-defense`. Under the
leadership of Louis Farrakhan, the movement
underwent a recent revival.