An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Clegg, Claude Andrew. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312181536.

The compelling biography of Elijah Muhammad. The visionary leader whose ideals and political actions have shaped a century of African-American History. Elijah Muhammed, the founding father of The Nation of Islam and the forbear to Louis Farrahkhan, has no emerged as one of the most significan black leaders of this century. Claude Andrew Clegg II examines Muhammads life from his birth in 1897 in Georgia, to his creation of the American Nation of Islam, to his final split with Malcolm X. Through this brilliant biography, we are finally able to understand the origins of Islam and black nationalism that has helped form the consciousness of African-American society for the last half-century.