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Nation of Islam: Million Man March
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The official membership of the Nation of Islam has been estimated to be between 19,000 and 30,000. Others have said they have 60,000 across America. Whatever the case, they have far more influence than their numbers would indicate, as the Million Man March demonstrated.
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Opponents focused on Ellison's sloppy handling of his taxes and a slew of unpaid parking tickets, along with his one-time affiliation with the Nation of Islam, whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, has been criticized for making anti-Semitic remarks. Ellison subsequently said he worked with the group largely to promote the 1995 Million Man March.
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Mahummad said the Nation of Islam requested a meeting either October 20 or 21 -- after Monday's Million Man March -- at "any time or any place." He ... said an October 22 meeting was possible if the other two dates were not available.
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The NOI ... has begun to develop various major business ventures, including the operation of a restaurant in a poor neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Its security arm — the Fruit of Islam — has been involved in providing security for housing projects in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., under contracts with public agencies such as the Chicago Housing Authority. In October 1995, the NOI and Farrakhan were instrumental in organizing the Million Man March, bringing together hundreds of thousands of African American men in Washington, D.C.
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Ellison was almost certainly a member of the NOI. Do you think the “Fruit Of Islam” (the NOI’s brownshirts) would have let the top organizer of the Million Man March be a non-member?
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