Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975

found: Abū Sulaymān, ʻA. al-W. I. Munaẓẓamat Ilāyjā Muḥammad al-Amrīkīyah, 1979:t.p. (Ilāyjā Muḥammad)

found: Muhammad, E. An interview with Elijah Muhammed [SR] p1983:label (Elijah Muhammed)

found: An original man, 1997:CIP t.p. (Elijah Muḥammad) announce. sheet (d. 1975)

found: Ency. of world biography, 2nd ed.(Elijah Muhammad, b. Elijah (or Robert) Poole, Oct. 7, 1897; d. Feb. 25, 1975)

found: Britannica academic edition website, viewed Dec. 20, 2013(Elijah Muhammad, original name Elijah Pool; b. Sandersville, Ga., d. Chicago; moved to Detroit in 1923, succeeded Wallace D. Fard as head of the Nation of Islam movement; due to dissension within the Detroit temple, moved to Chicago and estab. Temple No. 2)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Robert Poole; Islamic leader; born 10 October 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia, United States; in the early 1920s. worked in the automobile plants of Detroit; chosen by Master Wallace Fard (or Wali Farad) from Temple of Islam No. 1. to be his chief aide; Fard made him a "Bminister of Islam"(Band changed his name to Elijah Muhammad; led his followers to several midwestern cities before finally settling in Chicago in 1936 establishing there Temple of Islam No. 2; died 25 February 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)