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Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad was considered by Black Muslims as the "Last Messenger of Allah." In his 41 years as its spiritual leader, Elijah Muhammad molded the Nation of Islam into a significant religious body.

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Elijah Muhammad did not create the Nation of Islam but he built it on a number of principles. Among them: Islam is the true religion, "knowledge of self" is vital, "doing for self" is necessary, the black man is supreme and the white man is "the devil."

One of 13 children, Elijah Robert Poole was born in Sandersville, Georgia on October 7, 1897.

His parents were sharecroppers and former slaves, his father William Poole, was also a Baptist preacher. Poole's formal education ended at the fourth grade.

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To support the family, he worked with his parents as a sharecropper. When he was sixteen years old, he left home and began working in factories and at other businesses.

Elijah Poole married Clara Evans on March 7, 1917.

Part of the Great Migration, Elijah Poole and his