The Former Mr. Willie Jones Meets Nkrumah: The Nation of Islam and Pan-Africanism – Student Writers’ Corner

John Henrik Clarke – July 16, 1998

From Dr. Conrad Worril, “Remembering Dr. John Henrik Clarke as a Source of Wisdom,”BlackCommentator.com

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NOTES

1. Elijah Muhammad, Our Saviour Has Arrived, (Chicago, IL: Muhammad’s Temple, No. 2, 1974), 48

2. Restoration, Program of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

3. Joanne Grant, Black protest; history, documents, and analyses, 1619 to the Present, (NY: CBS Publications, 1968), 18

4. Elliott P. Skinner, “The Dialectic: Diasporas and Homelands,” in Joseph E. Harris, ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, (Howard University Press, 1993), 23

5. ibid

6. FADSI – First African Diaspora Studies Institute (FADSI), as described in Martin, Tony. Garvey and Scattered Africa, in Joseph E. Harris, ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, (Howard University Press, 1993), 441

7. Theodore G. Vincent, Black Power and the Garvey Movement. (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2006), 203

8. Muhammad, Our Saviour Has Arrived, 139

9. This is taken from the Table Talks with our Beloved Messenger pages 5-6

10. Sivanandan, A., A Different Hunger: Writings on Black Resistance, (London: Pluto Press Limited, 1983), part two, passim

11. Ian Duffield, “Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah,” History Today. (March, 1981), 24-30

12. Jamal Nkrumah, “Rekindling Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanism,” Crisis, (September/October 1998), 62

13. Tribe of Shabazz, Originally broadcast, 1962

14. Walters, Ronald W., Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements (African American Life Series), (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993), p. 68

15. Vincent, 116

16. March 7, 1960, Evening News, reproduced in Rupe Simms, “I am a Non-Denominational Christian and a Marxist-Socialist:” A Gramscian Analysis of the Convention People’s Party and Kwame Nkrumah’s Use of Religion.” Sociology of Religion, (2003, 64:4), 470-472

17. Martin Luther King, Jr. “letter from a Birmingham jail,” in Washington, James M., ed., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1986); Vincent,129]

18. Duffield, 26

19. Duffield, 27; see also

20. Kwame Nkrumah, quoted in New African, (October 2005, 18-19), originally in Neo-colonialism; the last stage of imperialism (London: Tomas Nelson, 1965)

21. ibid

22. Nkrumah, Gamal. Fathia Nkrumah: Farewell to All That.

23. Duffield, 25, 26

24. John Hope Franklin quoted by Skinner The Dialectic, 33

25. King “where do we go from here,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., 590; Gendler interview of King, in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., 667

26. “Where do we go from here,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., 591

27. Vincent , 121

28. ibid, 122

29. ibid, 140

30. radio schedule,

31. Vincent, 243

32. “Notes From The Messenger’s Table” (August 24, 1968) .

33. Corey Muhammad, “Farrakhan says: This is our last chance”

34. Duffield, 29

35. The Last Interview; Malcolm X, Al-Muslimoon Staff (from the Malcolm X Museum) Taken from Al-Muslimoon Magazine, February, 1965

36. Establishment, Program of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

37. A. Akbar Muhammad. (Africa Representative of the Nation of Islam). The CIA At 50:
50 Years of Dirty Tricks. Karenga, Maulana, “Speaking Freedom, Celebrating the People: Ghana @ 50, Nkrumah @ First,” Los Angeles Sentinel, 3-8-07, A7 38. Maulana Karenga, “Ghana at 50”

39. Aleem, et al. A History of Muslim African Americans, (Calumet City, IL: WDM Publications, 2006), 177

40. “Al Gathafi Tells African Leaders “If We Had Only Listened to Nkrumah” New African, (August/September 2005), 30-33; and Kwame Nkrumah, quoted in New African, (October 2005, 18-19); All-African People’s Conferences. International Organization. Vol. 16, No. 2, Africa and International Organization (Spring 1962), 429-434

41. Richard W. Stevenson, Officials to Block Qaddafi Gift to Farrakhan , (August 28, 1996),

42. December 1997

43. “None of Us Can Stand Alone.” (July 2007, New African), 13

44. Ghaddafi, 32

45. Travel to Ghana, Africa with Akbar Muhammad on July 27-August 8, 2007

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