Black Muslims

African American adherents of Islam, used broadly to describe the community of Black American Muslims whose religious practice has historically been intertwined with anti-imperial, nationalist, and civil rights politics. The term also often denotes movements like the Nation of Islam and related organizations that faced FBI surveillance and targeting as national security threats.

Claims that use this term

• Black Muslims armed their liberation hopes on a Japanese invasion during WWII
• Black Muslims constitute one-fourth of the Muslim population yet are excluded from leadership.
• Black Muslims in 1930s Pittsburgh turned to Majid for guidance and Africa repatriation hopes
• Black Muslims were FBI-targeted for Islamic practice voicing anti-imperial resistance.
• The FBI treated Black Muslims’ political Islam as a national security threat for decades.