Muhammad, Clara, 1898-1972

found: Amatullah-Rahman, Ajile Aisha. She stood by his side at times in his stead, 1999:t.p. (Sister Clara Muhammad)

found: Encyc. of Women and Religion in North America, 2006:p. 612 (Clara Muhammad, 1898-1972; wife of Elijah Muhammad; began the first University of Islam in the 1930s; "first lady" of the Nation of Islam)

found: Encyc. of Islam in the United States, 2007:entry for Elijah Muhammad, p.438-439 (maiden name Clara Evans; married Elijah Poole before she and her husband took the name Muhammad)

found: African American National Biography, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Muhammad, Clara; Clara Belle Evans; Islamic leader, educational reform advocate, organization founder/official, social reformer; born 2 November 1899 in Wenona, Georgia, United States; married Elijah Poole (later Elijah Muhammad), later leader of Nation of Islam (NOI) (1919); cofounder and first instructor of the University of Islam, the first black primary through secondary school in the United States with an anti-Eurocentric curriculum (1932); co-developed the Muslim Girls' Training (MGT) and General Civilization Class (GCC); supreme secretary of the Nation of Islam (1943); known in the early twenty-first century as “Sister Clara” and “Mother Clara”; kept the NOI alive during its most formative years, led to the evolution of a movement that produced five of America's most influential and internationally respected African American and Muslim leaders; more than forty independent Sister Clara Mohammed (Muhammad) Schools, renamed in her honor from the University of Islam by Warith Deen Mohammed (late 1970s); died 12 August 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)