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Just before the roaring twenties came in, Elijah Poole married the former Clara Evans, also of Georgia. They had eight children, Emmanuel, Ethel, Lottie, Nathaniel, Herbert, Elijah, Jr., Wallace and Akbar.
In April 1923, Elijah Poole moved his young family from Macon, Georgia, where he worked for the Southern Railroad Company and the Cherokee Brick Company to Detroit, Michigan. Black families, like the Pooles, were leaving the south at that time, in search of better economic and social circumstances. Detroit was a bustling upwardly mobile city with its burgeoning auto industry.
The stock market crash in 1929 was the gateway to economic misery that sparked the fuel of the "Great Depression" of the 1930s. Moreover, America's racial situation continued its downward spiral. Lynchings, race riots and other forms of terrorism against Black people continued unabated. But Detroit, with its huge population of 1.5 million people, 250,000 of whom were Black, was beginning to see changes in its social scene.
On July 4, 1930, the long awaited "Saviour" of the Black man and woman, Master W. Fard Muhammad, appeared in this city. He announced and preached that God is One, and it is now time for Black people to return to the religion of their ancestors, Islam. News spread all over the city of Detroit of the preachings of this great man from the East. Elijah Poole's wife first learned of the Temple of Islam and wanted to attend to see what the
Master Fard Muhammad
The Fruit of Islam protect the
Honourable Elijah Muhammad
Honourable Elijah Muhammad
Minister Louis Farrakhan adjusts microphone for the Honourable Elijah Muhammad - also in picture, Malcolm X and Minister Abdul Allah
