A Lively Experiment
A Multireligious Historical Overview of Rhode Island
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| For African Americans, the early decades of the 1900s continued to be a period of extreme social displacement and economic deprivation. From the 1930s through the 1960s, preaching by Elijah Muhammad and later Malcolm X attracted many African Americans to a movement known as the Nation of Islam (NOI). Although inconsistent on many points with orthodox Islam, this movement helped many American blacks develop the self-esteem and economic security denied them by white racist American society. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son Warith Deen Mohammed inherited the movement's leadership and gradually brought it in line with the global community of orthodox Islam. During the 1950s, NOI meetings were held in Providence, Rhode Island, in small businesses and private homes. Later in the 1970s, this community followed Warith Deen Mohammed's lead and aligned itself with orthodox Islam. In the 1980s and 90s, the descendants of that community reorganized as the Muslim American Da'wah Center on Providence's South Side. This small but active community is publicly recognized for its engagement in numerous original and interfaith programs for community improvement, fighting crime, violence, drug abuse, poverty, and other social ills. |
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