# When the Word is Given... A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World

Author: Lomax, Louis E., 1922-1970

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61806

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## Summary

The ultimate comment upon racialism in this republic is that the all-black Nation of Islam--a Chicago-based theocracy whose citizens are known as the Black Muslims--is one of the few religions ever produced by the American experience. Incensed liberals, Negro and white, will deny my assertion that the Black Muslims are a religious body, but the issue, both legally and theologically, has been settled: Courts in several states have ruled that the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad are, indeed, adherents to a religious faith--as such, Black Muslim prison inmates have the right to hold services of worship as do other convicts. And no one who understands theologian Paul Tillich’s argum...

## Chapters

- [PART TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-word-is-given-a-report-on-elijah-muhammad-malcolm-x-an-3073a040/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-word-is-given-a-report-on-elijah-muhammad-malcolm-x-an-3073a040/chapters/1/index.md)