Black Muslims and the Law

Informationen zum Autor By Malachi D. Crawford Klappentext Black Muslims and the Law examines the Nation of Islam's struggle for religious freedom from World War II to the Vietnam War through the lives of key members, such as Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. In doing so, the work reveals the key initiatives the Nation of Islam took to defend the civil liberties of its members from a position of power. Zusammenfassung Black Muslims and the Law examines the Nation of Islam's struggle for religious freedom from World War II to the Vietnam War through the lives of key members, such as Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. In doing so, the work reveals the key initiatives the Nation of Islam took to defend the civil liberties of its members from a position of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...........................................................................iiiINTRODUCTION....................................................................................000Chapter1.LAW, RELIGION AND THE RISE OF THE NOI.....................................0002.FIGHTING IN THE COURTS: EARLY NOI LEGAL DEFENSE...................0003.WOMEN, DOMESTIC WORK AND SOCIAL LEGITIMACY IN THE EARLY NOI.........................................................................0004.THE INTERWAR PERIOD, 1942-1957.................................................0005.A PRISON MOVEMENT FOR LEGAL LEGITIMACY...............................0006.THE NOI'S PRESS FOR SOCIAL LEGITIMACY.....................................0007.CLEAR VICTORIES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES..............................000CONCLUSION.........................................................................................000NOTES...................................................................................................000BIBLIOGRAPHY......................................................................................000

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By Malachi D. Crawford

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Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam's quest for civil liberties as what might arguably be called the inaugural and first sustained challenge to the suppression of religious freedom in African American legal history. Borrowing insights from A. Leon Higgonbotham Jr.'s classic works on American slavery jurisprudence, Black Muslims and the Law reveals the Nation of Islam's strategic efforts to engage governmental officials from a position of power, and suggests the federal executive, congressmen, judges, lawyers, law enforcement officials, prison administrators, state governments, and African American civic leaders held a common understanding of what it meant to be and not to be African American and religious in the period between World War II and the Vietnam War. The work raises basic questions about the rights of African descended people to define god, question white moral authority, and critique the moral legitimacy of American war efforts according to their own beliefs and standards.

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Black Muslims and the Law examines the Nation of Islam's struggle for religious freedom from World War II to the Vietnam War through the lives of key members, such as Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. In doing so, the work reveals the key initiatives the Nation of Islam took to defend the civil liberties of its members from a position of power.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...........................................................................iii INTRODUCTION....................................................................................000 Chapter 1.LAW, RELIGION AND THE RISE OF THE NOI.....................................000 2.FIGHTING IN THE COURTS: EARLY NOI LEGAL DEFENSE...................000 3.WOMEN, DOMESTIC WORK AND SOCIAL LEGITIMACY IN THE EARLY NOI.........................................................................000 4.THE INTERWAR PERIOD, 1942-1957.................................................000 5.A PRISON MOVEMENT FOR LEGAL LEGITIMACY...............................000 6.THE NOI'S PRESS FOR SOCIAL LEGITIMACY.....................................000 7.CLEAR VICTORIES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES..............................000 CONCLUSION.........................................................................................000 NOTES...................................................................................................000 BIBLIOGRAPHY......................................................................................000