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Article: Jesse Jackson's controversial ally. (Louis Farrakhan)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 23, 1984
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1984 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Louis Eugene Walcott ... Louis X Walcott ... Louis X ... Abdul Haleem Farrakhan ... Louis Farrakhan.
The 50-year-old spellbinding orator is a man of almost as many voices as he has names, and one of those voices stirred trouble for the only politician he has ever idolized, Jesse Jackson.
Leader of the Nation of Islam, an austere offshoot of the Black Muslim movement, Farrakhan came out of seven years of self-imposed silence and a lifetime of avoiding organized politics to urge blacks to help elect a black man President of the United States.
Then, a black reporter, Milton Coleman, relayed Democratic presidential candidate Jackson's careless ...
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Article: Black Muslim
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...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Black Muslim a member of a predominantly black Islamic movement in the U.S.: the name is considered derogatory by members of the group, who call themselves simply Muslims Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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