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Farrakhan, Louis Abdul
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Farrakhan, Louis
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 1279 Includes: Bibliography(b. 11 May 1933), controversial Nation of Islam leader. Louis Eugene Walcott was born in the Bronx, New York. His mother, Sarah Mae Channing Clarke, of West Indian heritage, raised him and his brother Alvin in a deeply religious household. As a youth, Louis attended the local Episcopal church and served as an altar boy.The discipline he received early in his life contributed to his academic success at high school in Boston. There, he graduated with honors and began his love affair with the violin. At the age of thirteen, he acquired experience playing with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. He attended Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina for two years before leaving in order to pursue his musical interests. Subsequently he performed in Boston as a calypso singer. ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 11391933–
African American religious leader, head of the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan is the head of the Nation of Islam, a black religious organization in the United States that combines some of the practices and beliefs of Islam with a philosophy of black separatism. He preaches the virtues of personal responsibility, especially for black men, and advocates black self-sufficiency. Farrakhan's message, which has appealed mainly to urban blacks, draws on the tradition of black nationalists who have called for black self-reliance in the face of economic injustice and white racism. His more inflammatory remarks have caused critics to claim that he has appealed to black racism and anti-Semitism to promote his views.Born Louis Eugene Walcott in New York, New York, Farrakhan grew up in Boston, Massachusetts ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 2168 Includes: Further Reading(11 May 1933– ), leader of the Nation of Islam, was born Louis Eugene Walcott in the Bronx, New York City, to Sarah Mae Manning, a native of St. Kitts, who worked as a domestic. Farrakhan's biological father was Manning's husband, Percival Clarke, a light-skinned Jamaican cab driver. By the time young Louis was born, however, Manning had left Clarke and was living with Louis Walcott. Manning hoped her baby would be a girl and have a dark complexion like herself and Walcott. Nevertheless, when the child was born male and with a light complexion, she named him Louis and listed Walcott as the father (Magida, 10). Walcott stayed with the family during their move to the Roxbury section of Boston in 1937, but departed shortly thereafter.Raising two young children alone during the Depression was difficult, but ...
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