Nation of Islam

CTL-E-0340 · Organization · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Religious and political movement founded in Detroit (1930) whose headquarters moved to Chicago after 1934 under Elijah Muhammad. Chicago-headquartered Black religious and political movement with documented travel, financial and broadcast links to Africa and the Middle East.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-015; source research type(s): Organization/religious movement. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Elijah Muhammad EBSCO EBSCO Research Starters
Black Religion and Black Power: The Nation of Islam's Internationalism; Congressional Record (primary source)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/islam-biographies/elijah-muhammad

Record CTL-E-0340 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 3 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: GLOBAL-001.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph

Cite this record

Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Nation of Islam (CTL-E-0340),” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, October 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0340/

Chicago: CultureTechLens. “Nation of Islam (CTL-E-0340).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0340/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). Nation of Islam (CTL-E-0340) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0340/
MLA: CultureTechLens. “Nation of Islam (CTL-E-0340).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, 2026, https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0340/

Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — none to date.