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- member of a religious group founded 1929 in
- the US and led, from 1934, by Elijah Mohammed
- (then Elijah Poole) (1897-1975) after he had
- a vision of Allah. Its growth from 1946 as a
- black separatist organization was due to
- Malcolm X, the son of a Baptist minister who,
- in 1964, broke away and founded his own
- Organization for African-American Unity,
- preaching `active self-defense`. Under the
- leadership of Louis Farrakhan, the movement
- underwent a recent revival.
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