Noble Drew Ali

CTL-E-0494 · Person · 1886–1929

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Drew Ali founded the Moorish Science Temple movement in Newark in 1913 and moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1925.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-205; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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