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Elijah Muhammad  

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  • Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, in October 1897. He had a rough beginning, leaving school after the third grade; he worked several jobs before moving to Detroit in 1919, where he worked at the Chevrolet Auto Plant for 6 years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Muhammad, Elijah (1897–1975)]

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