A National Archives and Records Administration online exhibit, Portrait of Black Chicago, captioning a March 1974 photograph of Nation of Islam Fruit of Islam bodyguards with an uncited description of the group's holdings as a '75 million dollar empire' including a mosque, newspaper, university, restaurants, real estate, a bank and retail stores.
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Tier 3: a National Archives and Records Administration online exhibit, Portrait of Black Chicago, read directly at archives.gov, captioning a March 1974 photograph of Fruit of Islam bodyguards at Elijah Muhammad's annual Saviours' Day address with the words 'their 75 million dollar empire includes a mosque, newspaper, university, restaurants, real estate, bank, and variety of retail stores.' The exhibit gives no citation for how that figure was calculated or which original source it draws on, and does not itself state when the online exhibit was published, only the photograph's March 1974 date. A federal archival institution hosting an unsourced period claim, not a government audit or disclosure of the Nation of Islam's own finances. Citation
PublisherNational Archives and Records Administration
URLhttps://www.archives.gov/exhibits/portrait_of_black_chicago/part_3/part_3_page_2.html
Source Typeprimary source / official record
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This source names Chicago directly: "online exhibit, Portrait of Black Chicago, captioning a March 1974 photograph of Nation of Islam Fruit of Islam bodyguards with an uncited description of the group's holdings as a '75 million dollar..."
This source names Nation of Islam directly: "captioning a March 1974 photograph of Nation of Islam Fruit of Islam bodyguards with an uncited description of the group's holdings as a '75 million dollar empire' including a mosque, newspaper..."
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