Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
|
|---|
| Other authors / contributors: | Farrakhan, Louis, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
|
|---|
| Sound characteristics: | digital
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | video file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2010 November 29.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2010 December 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
|
|---|
| Summary: | Religious leader Minister Louis Farrakhan was born on as Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in the Bronx, New York. A talented violin player, Farrakhan attended Boston Latin School and English High School and was featured on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. After attending a speech by Elijah Muhammad in 1955, Farrakhan joined the Nation of Islam and then became assistant Minister to Malcolm X and then minister of the Muhammad Temple No. 11 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1965, he was appointed by Elijah Muhammad to serve as Minister of Temple No. 7 in New York City. Farrakhan worked with the Harlem community, but then decided to recruit his own supporters and rebuild and lead the Nation of Islam after the leadership of Imam W. Deen Muhammad. In 1995, Farrakhan spearheaded the Million Man March which was held in Washington, D.C., asking African American men renew their comment to their families and communities. In 2008, Minister Farrakhan opened the doors and grounds of Mosque Maryam.
|
|---|
