Farrakhan louis biography

American religious leader (born )

Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, ) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization.^[2][3] Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and for his rhetoric that has been widely denounced as antisemitic and racist.

Prior to joining the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene.

Farrakhan louis biography

Early in his career, he served as the minister of mosques in Boston and Harlem and was appointed to the post of National Representative of the Nation of Islam by then-NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. He adopted the name Louis X before being named Louis Farrakhan.

After Warith Deen Mohammed reorganized the original NOI into the orthodox Sunni Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan began to rebuild the NOI as "Final Call". In , he officially adopted the name "Nation of Islam