Summary
A Black American religious movement of the 1950s and ’60s treated in Chapter 9 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as a context in which Black Americans imagined the Middle East as a site of struggle and freedom, and in which Malcolm X developed his international outlook (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1628-1645).
Details
- Its political perspective was shaped by founder Wallace Fard Muhammad’s interpretation of Islam and that of his successor, Elijah Muhammad, and by Black nationalist politics; it took particular inspiration from Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt (lines 1630-1642).
- Its publications reported on Egypt in the 1950s, in particular on Nasser’s effort to nationalize the Suez Canal, which Israel, France and Britain answered with military invasion (lines 1632-1642).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Malcolm X, Black–Palestinian solidarity