| Bibliography: A Short History of Black Muslims in the Bay Allah, Wakeel, In the Name of Allah, A-Team, Atlanta, 2007 Allen, Robert L., Black Awakening in Capitalist America, AWP, New Jersey, 1992 Al Mansour, Khalid Abdullah Tariq, Black America at the Crossroads ________, The Reflections of an African Arabian in American Captivity ________, Talal, The Challenge of Spreading Islam in America Ali, Yusef, Holy Qur'an Armstrong, Karen, A History of God ________, Muhammad Aslan, Reza, No god but God, Random House, 2006 Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time, Dial Press, NY, 1963 Bloom, Alexander, Wini Breines, eds, Takin' it to the Streets, Oxford, 1995 Bontemps, Arna, Black Thunder, Beacon, Boston, 1963 _______, Conroy, They Seek A City Breitman, George, The Last Year of Malcolm X, Merit, NY, 1967 _______, Malcolm X Speaks, Grove, NY., 1965 Clarke, John Henrik, ed, Malcolm X, The Man and His Times, Collier, NY, 1969 Cleaver, Soul on Ice ______, Soul on Fire ______, Post Prison Writings, Ramparts, 1969 Diop, Cheikh Anta, Cultural Unity of Africa, TWP, Chicago DuBois, W.E.B, The Souls of Black Folk, Penguin, NY, 1996 _____, The World and Africa _____, Black Reconstruction Foner, Philip S., ed., The Black Panthers Speak, Da Capo Press, 1995 Frazier, E. Franklin, Black Bourgeoisie, Collier, NY, 1975 _____, Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World, Beacon, Boston, 1957 Franklin, John Hope, From Slavery to Freedom, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1980 Genovese, Eugene D, From Rebellion to Revolution, Louisiana State U. Press, 1979 Gitlin, Todd, The Sixties, Years of Hope, Days of Rage, Bantam, NY, 1987 Hilliard, David, Huey, Spirit of the Panther, Thunder Mouth Press, NY, 2006 Houston, Drusilla Dunjee, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, BCP, Baltimore, 1985 Howard, Elbert "Big Man", Panther on the Prowl, BCP, Baltimore, 2002 Jackson, George, Soledad Brother Jackson, John G., Man, God and Civilization ______, Introduction to African Civilization, Jamal, Mumia Abu, Live from Death Row, Avon, 1996 James, George G.M., Stolen Legacy, AWP, New Jersey, 1992 Kenyatta, Jomo, Facing Mt. Kenya, Vintage, NY, 1965 Lincoln, C. Eric, The Black Muslims in America, Beacon, Boston, 1961 Martin, Tony, Literary Garveyism, The Majority Press, Mass, 1983 Muhammad, Elijah, Message to the Black Man ________, Theology of Time ________, Fall of America, Muhammad's Temple No.2, Chicago, 1973 ________, How to Eat to Live Oliver, John A, Eldridge Cleaver Reborn Polk, William R., The Arab World Today, Harvard, 1991 Sertima, Ivan Van, They Came Before Columbus, Random House, 1976 Soyinka, Wole, The Open Sore of A Continent, Oxford U. Press, 1995 Ture, Kwame, Hamilton, Charles, Black Power, Vintage, 1992 Udom, E.U. Essien, Black Nationalism, Dell, NY, 1962 Vincent, Theodore G., Black Power and the Garvey Movement, BCP, Baltimore, 2006 Walker, David, David Walker's Appeal, 1829, Washington, Booker T, Up From Slavery, Bantam, NY, 1967 Williams, Chancellor, The Destruction of Black Civilization, TWP, Chicago, 1987 Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery, University of North Carolina Press, 1994 Williams, Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose, Berkley, New York, 1987 Young, Henry J, Major Black Religious Leaders, Abingdon, 1977 X, Malcolm, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ballantine, NY, 1965 X, Marvin, Eldridge Cleaver, My friend the Devil, BBP, Berkeley, 2009 _______, Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, BBP, Berkeley, 2007 _______, How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, BBP, Berkeley, 2008 _______, Wish I Could Tell You The Truth, BPP, Berkeley, 2005 _______, Somethin' Proper, BBP, Berkeley, 1998 _______, How I Met Isa, MA thesis, San Francisco State University, 1975, unpublished, _______, Fly to Allah, Al Kitab Sudan, Fresno, 1969 _______, I Am Oscar Grant, BBP, Berkeley, 2010 AUDIOGRAPHY Nisa Islam (Bey), Cherokee, 2004. Nadar Ali, Fresno, 2004. Manuel Rashid, Fresno, 2004. John Douimbia, Grand Ayatollah of the Bay, San Francisco, 2004. Minister Rabb Muhammad, Oakland, 2004. Antar Bey, CEO, Your Black Muslim Bakery, Oakland, 2004. Norman Brown, Oakland, Oakland, 2004. Kareem Muhammad (Brother Edward), Oakland, 20 VIDEOGRAPHY Marvin X Interviews Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, former actor in Marvin X's Black Theatre: Berkeley, La Pena Cultural Center, 1999. Marvin X Live in Detroit, a documentary by Abu Ibn, 2002. Proceedings of the San Francisco Black Radical Book Fair, produced by Marvin X, filmed by Mindseed Productions, San Francisco, Recovery Theatre, 2004, participants include: Sonia Sanchez, Davey D, Amiri Baraka, Sam Hamod, Fillmore Slim, Askia Toure, Akhbar Muhammad, Sam Anderson, Al Young, Devorah Major, Opal Palmer Adisa, Tarika Lewis, Amina Baraka, Julia and Nathan Hare, Charlie Walker, Jamie Walker, Reginald Lockett, Everett Hoagland, Sam Greenlee, Ayodelle Nzinga, Suzzette Celeste, Tarika Lewis, Raynetta Rayzetta, Deborah Day, James Robinson, Ptah Allah-El, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Marvin X, et al. (Note: let me please acknowledge some of the historic personages in the audience: Gansta Alonzao Batin (mentor of the Bay Area BAM, made his transition shortly after the conference), Willie Williams of Broadside Press, Detroit, Gansta Brown, Gansta Mikey Moore (now Rev.), Arthur Sheridan, founder of Black Dialogue magazine, also co-founders Aubrey and Gerald LaBrie, Reginald Major, author of Panther Is A Black Cat. Thank you all for making this event historic, ed. MX) Get Yo Mind Right, Marvin X Barbershop Talk, #4, a documentary film by Pam Pam and Marvin X, Oakland: 2005. Introduction, Overview This project employs the participant/observer model. Brother Donald Hopkins noted that I am close to the subject, psychologically and physically, although I maintain a psychic distance from all things in order to allow the artist's touch to happen. Sometimes being too close to the subject destroys all objectivity. This occurred when I viewed Spike Lee's film Malcolm X. I left the theatre in tears at a point because I saw too much of my life before my eyes. Additionally, I was disgusted that Malcolm claimed not to know Elijah had a plethora of women, since he and Elijah were so close. And, more so, Elijah taught all of us to trust no one, including him. This project began and ended in 2004 because my advisers warned me I would be killed if I published it. For several years, until now, I put the manuscript aside although I have no fear of death: Inna salati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamati li-Lahi Rabbi-l-alamin... (Surely my prayer, and sacrifice and my life and death are for Allah, Lord of the worlds). I did not resume the project until 2012, inspired by the release of Thomas Steele's book Killing the Messenger, his socalled expose of Black Muslims and their role in the assassination of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey. Part One of this project deals with my view of who killed Chauncey Bailey. For sure, as James Baldwin said of Malcolm's killers, "The hand that pulled the trigger didn't buy the bullet." I would like readers to understand that for all my psychi distance, I am yet a captive of the Islamic spirit and cannot deny this. I'm also a captive of the African spirit and lastly the human spirit, though I do consider myself divine. For the purpose of this project, I will try to dwell on th human plane. As I overview this work, it is crystal clear to me that we are a superhuman people. It is so wonderful to explore the beginnings of our evolution in the Nile Valley. What is amazing is that when we conclude the African man and woman are indeed Adam and Eve, we must then recognize Africans as the progenitors of humanity. What an awesome responsibility to be burdened with, and yet I have no doubt once we regain our mental equilibrium, we shall handle the matter handsomely. Yet, this puts us on a plane superior to most of humanity, despite our inferior condition today. After difficulty comes ease, the Qur'an teaches us, so we know everything is going to be all right once we master the Sisyphus syndrome of rolling the rock up the hill only to have it slip from our grasp and then we must go to the bottom of the mountain to begin anew. If this has been only a test of strength, surely we have mastered the test. The problem is that some people continue praying when Allah has already answered. Why are you on your knees when you have acquired the trappings of freedom, i.e., knowledge of self and others? Our history is so awesome it staggers the mind, making one tremble with tears in the night, and yet so much ignorance prevails in spite of knowledge blowing in the wind. Perhaps this is why the Bible says the people were destroyed for lack of knowledge. Who can pity you if you die of thirst when the well water is beneath your feet? In the spirit of ancestor David Walker, somebody help me! Somebody needs a healing up in here! It is well known today that Africans or the Aboriginal Man developed from the four thousand miles of the Nile Valley that begins in the Congo and ends on the delta. Four thousand miles of history and culture, acquired over thousands, yea, millions if not trillions of years, once we escape the White Supremacy paradigm of time. Elijah was trying to tell us something in his Theology of Time. Does not the Qur'an say by the time surely man is lost, except those who bow down and exhort one another to truth! And Solomon told us there is a time for everything, a time for you and a time for me, a time to reap and a time to sow, a time for war and a time for peace, a time to love and a time to hate. There used to be the cry Nation Time! What happened? Did those caught in the slave system go back to sleep? Let us not digress. From the Nile Valley we evolved religion, from many gods to One God, from ancestor worship and the trinity to the purity of Akhenaton's Sun Hymn. But the African mind can walk and chew gum, we are thus quite able to derive a holistic relationship with the variety of theological concerns. As my Islamic mentor taught me, ancestor Ali Sherif Bey, all religions yet express primitive notions, shall we call it polytheism, ancestor worship? Tell me, do not certain Muslims worship saints? Do not certain Muslims practice magic? In his Dawn of Conscience, James H. Breasted told us, "Monotheism is but imperialism in religion." And so when we evolved to empire building, it was a natural thing for monotheism to rule. Nile Valley religion expanded to rule the world. And with the decline of the West, the pure monotheism appears about to surface again. Can you not see there is before us a global Islamic people's revival, call it revolution, witness the Middle East, from Tunisia to Syria. I am so serious about Syria, not only because my son (RIP) spent time in Syria with a Fulbright fellowship to the University of Damascus. He repeatedly told me about the police state called Syria, that interrogated him daily, and then the CIA questioned him, a black man in Syria who spoke Arabic fluently, who graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern literature at UC Berkeley, and did graduate studies at Harvard. My son cried out to me about conditions in Syria, how the Africans were treated like persons caught in the Arab slave system, passports seized, forced to live live rats unable to go home. The Syrians questions my son on a daily basis, he told me. "Dad, they question me every day, why are you reading material about the Baath party, why are you hanging around those filthy Palestinians?" And the CIA was equally interested in my son, a North American African who spoke Arabic. The CIA tried to recruit him at every turn. After all, no white man could enter Syria. Remember when the USA pilot was shot down? Who was able to rescue the pilot? Only Jesse Jackson and Minister Farrakhan! The white man was cut out the game! Somebody help me! And yes, ultimately the Islamic and Arab revolution shall engulf Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and the entire Persian Gulf Western sycophants. The Western powers may try to utilize a moderate or conservative Islam, yet they shall fail to swindle the people of their birthright to freedom, justice and self determination. Even the nuclear blackmail shall not suffice! What does a man determined to be free care about the nuclear threat from Israel or America? To hell with America and Israel, and to hell with their sycophants Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Gulf states. The people shall be free by any means necessary! Let us not digress! Diop and others have dispelled the notion of Whites creating civilization, including Arabs and Jews, actually, both Arabs and Jews have been found to be non-white. And furthermore, the first white man was a black man! Call me Grimaldi and Negrito! As per Islam, Diop tells us "the fundamental ideas of Islam were in Arabia a thousand years before Muhammad. Dr. Ben taught us the African origin of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Other scholars have confirmed this: J.A., Rogers, W.E.B. DuBois, Chancellor Williams, DeGraft Johnson, J. G. Jackson and the wonderful Druisilla Dunjee Houston with her Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire. And from Homer down to the present, there is a plethora of White scholars who transcended their white supremacy to tell the truth about our history as a people of genius. What is astounding is that even under the worse conditions of the slave system in the Americans, our genius flowed like water. Imagine victims of the vicious American slave system producing a body of literature, i.e., the socalled slave narratives. These narratives are the foundation stone of American literature. No genre of American literature is superior to the socalled slave narratives! What on earth can the master class say above the oppressed slave class about the love of life, the joy of life, the humanity of life, the philosophy of life, the politics of life, the economy of life? Let us not digress! For sure, there is no Islam without the African Arabian Bilal, or even in pre-Islamic Arabia, there is no Arabic literature without the African Arabian poet Antar. And this brings tears to my eyes! Bilal was held in such high regard by Prophet Muhammad that he saw Bilal's footsteps ahead of his in paradise! Bilal is considered the third part of Islam after Allah and Muhammad. And who originated the Ahdan or call to prayer said five times daily throughout the Muslim world, a world of over a billion people? Bilal! Even under torture, it was Bilal who refused to renounce the one God Allah, who cried again and again, Al Ahad, Al Ahad, Al Ahad! (The One, the One, the One). After Muhammad's victory in Arabia, Islam took off like a jet plane. As per Africa, Egypt was conquered, North Africa soon after. And then the Moors (led by Africans or blackamoors). J. DeGraft Johnson makes plain it was an African conquest, African Glory. It was the African general Tarik who conquered Spain, for whom Gibraltar is named (Gebel (rock) Tarik. The Moors ruled from 711 until 1492. Spain has languished in darkness since the fall of Grenada. And yet the glory of Moorish Spain that permitted the Europeans to escape the Dark Ages was nothing unique for the Africans. So what the Moors and Arabs translated the Greek classic into European languages. So what they made Plato, Aristole and Socrates available to the West, after all, what were these characters to Nile Valley Civilization, from who their teachings were Stolen legacy, see George M. James. After all, the Dark Ages did not inhabit Africa, for in Africa simultaneously light was shining brightly in West Africa. Nile Vally civilization reappeared in Beled Es Sudan or land of the Blacks. We need only cite the kingdoms and empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. Diop has shown us the cultural similarities between the Nile Valley and Beled Es Sudan, linguistically, socially, religiously, ritually, mythologicaly, politically, etc. Timbuktu became the center of intellectual power in West Africa. Scholars came to study from around the world, most certainly the African and Islamic world. Books were as precious as gold. Almost everyone had a library, and one of Timbuktu's greatest scholars, Ahmad Baba, said his library was the smallest, compared with his family members. Ghana, Mali and Songhay gave full expression to the African genius prior to the Maafa or great disaster of the American slave system. Now any intelligent person will ask the question, "If we were so intelligent, so great, how did we fall?" Chancellor Williams told us in Destruction of African Civilization that our doom was sealed 6,000 years ago when we welcomed strangers into our land, despite this being an African custom. Europeans shoot strangers, Africans welcome strangers. But Dr. Walter Rodney (West Africa and the Atlanta Slave Trade, a monograph) explains we fell from much the same that is occurring in Africa today: corruption, corruption, corruption. All social, cultural institutions fell victim to greed and wanton materialism. The political, judicial, religious, military and other segments of society fell victim to the slave system. We must be brave enough to consider the African side of the slave system, not simply blame the white man, for there can be no buyers without sellers. From a society that valued knowledge, we degenerated to one that valued trinkets above human beings. Is it not the same today in the modern slave system called America, wherein one can be killed for a pair of tennis shoes, or because one possesses a nice car someone else doesn't have, or a nice woman who departed to another because she was continually abused, physically, verbally and emotionally. In the manner of slave system psychology, we truly believe we own the woman or man, that he or she is chattel property (personal). What is interesting is that prior to entering the slave system, we were quite familiar with the Americas, having traveled there for centuries, it being a distance of 1,600 miles from Africa to the Americas. See They Came Before Columbus by ancestor Ivan Van Sertima, also Kofi Harun Wangara's writings. And then shit hit the fan! The slave system. What horror, bestiality, savagery, eternal servitude. Who are these people? They really make you wonder, hurry Allah with the fire and water! Can these be human beings, an African wrote when observing them aboard ship. He had never seen white people before and could not believe the savage treatment they meted out. From a culture that allowed the full expression of our genius, we found ourselves in a situation when ignorance was the order of the day, where hands were cut off to keep us in darkness, as if we had never known literacy and literature, science and philosophy. And even in the triple darkness of the slave system, there were many of us who spoke and wrote multiple languages, Arabic, Hausa, Yoruba, Spanish, French, Portuguese, often times we were more intelligent than those who controlled the slave system, many of whom could not read or write their names, yet believed themselves superior to Africans. We should have the common sense to know the slave system master had no need of ignorant slaves, but rather those with skills in agriculture, architecture, construction, plantation management, iron making, bricklaying, etc. The docile African was made so by terror, beatings, whippings, emotional and verbal abuse, much in the same manner as men beat their wives into submission today. The Slave Narratives abound in tales of white terror and black submission, see Frederick Douglass or recall how Kunta Kinte was beaten until he acknowledged his "real" name was Toby. We call this the first step in the psycholinguistic crisis of the North American African. Who am I and what is my name? It has taken over four hundred years for us to settle this question for ourselves, and even today we are still not quite sure who we are or what is our name! African, Negro, Colored, Bilalian, Nubian, Arabian, Nigguh, bitch, ho, motherfucker, American, Afro American, North American African. Alas, if the white man knows nothing else, he knows he's white. He may not know whether he's straight or gay, but he knows he's white, and at any given moment the lowest white man can take advantage of white privilege. For the black man to claim his racial identity is a constant war, yes, a war of liberation, since slavery and after, down to the present moment. Blackness is not a color but a condition and that condition is freedom, independence and self determination. Blackness is thus a state of mind, a sense of being in harmony with the universe, with the living, the dead and the yet unborn. Resistance to the American slave system was widespread and constant, almost daily, yes, as Richard Wright told us in Native Son, his very presence was a crime against the state, every glance of the eye a threat. Men and women who came from a tradition of great literature, art, science and philosophy cannot submit to a slave system, only for a time, then the human soul revolts at the travesty of its condition. Africans planned and plotted and took a variety of actions, see Herbert Aptheker's Negro Slave Revolts. There was the burning and looting of plantations, the Maroon tradition of running into the bush. In Palmares, Brazil, the Africans liberated space for a century, after a series of Hausa Muslim revolts in the 17th century. In North America and the Caribbean, Africans escaped to live among the Native Americans, after all, not all the Africans had arrived here on slave ships but came before Columbus and were indistinguishable from the indigenous people. In the early 19th century, there were revolts by Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey and Gabriel Prosser, the liberation essays of David Walker and others inspired by God, Allah, and Jesus to liberate themselves. Their writings were suppressed by the slave system. A bounty was put on David Walker's head and he died mysteriously in Boston a year after David Walker's Appeal was published in 1829. Yes, no wonder the slave system called for cutting off the hands of those who could read and write. Even today, the African who is able to think, read and write is a dangerous person. He must be watched, his writings suppressed if he expresses radical consciousness. Not only do the white publishers run from him, but the Negro publishers as well. Often the African sang in code, call it the Blues, the music Muslims brought to the Mississippi delta from Mali and elsewhere. What did the great Malian musician (RI), Ali Farka say, "Blues! I don't play Blues, but the music my people have been playing for thousands of years." Blues, Spirituals, the Sorrow Songs, told our story of life in the American slave system, songs and tales of lost love, rejection, hope and liberation. The Gullah Africans of South Carolina and the Georgia islands not only brought rice to the Americas but an infusion of Islam as well. --continued-- | |
A Short History of Black Muslims in The Bay Area (Circa 1954-2012)
by El Muhajir (Marvin X, M.A.)
by El Muhajir (Marvin X, M.A.)
Contents
Chronology of Original Man
Introduction
1. African Origin of Religions and the Cultural Unity of Africa
2. Mythology of Allah: Egyptian Religion and its steps toward Islam
3. Muhammad Ibn Abdullah: The fundamental ideas of Islam were in Arabia a thousand
years before Muhammad (Cheikh Anta Diop)
4. Blackamoors in Spain (711-1492)
5. Belad Es Sudan (Islam in West Africa): Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Usman Dan Fodio and the
Fulani Jihads, Ahmadu Bamba in Senegal and the Holy City of Touba (More sacred than Mecca to Africans)
6. Moorish Muslims in the Americas before Columbus
7. Muslim victims of the American "Slave System"
See the "Slave narratives" , Maroon communities, slave revolts, Seminoles and especially Hausa revolts in Brazil, Gullah Negroes
8. Muslims Up South:
Newark, Detroit, Chicago: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Duse Muhammad Ali, Noble Drew Ali, Marcus Garvey, Farad Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X
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9. Black Muslims in the Bay Area of SF/Oakland: Toward National Consciousness or the Mental Revolution
10. Mosque #26
a. Min. Robert X. Ashford (Aaron Ali), the linguist
b. Bernard Cushmeer
c. John Wesley
d. Henry Majed
e. John Muhammad
f.Billy X, aka Rabb Muhammad
g. Minister Keith Muhammad
h. Minister Christopher Muhammad
i. Imam Shauib
j. Imam Alamin
k. Capt. Nisa Islam
l. Lt. Joan, aka Tarika Lewis
m. Capt. Mae Helen, Fatimah
n. Lt. Fahizah
11. The Little Manger or the "Hypocrites"
a. Aaron Ali's house
b. Brother Green's barber shop
12. Muslims and the Black Arts Movement (1966)
a. Marvin X
b. Duncan X
c. Hillery X
d. Ethna X
e. Farouk, aka Carl Bossiere
f. Alonzo Harris Batin
g. Ali Sharif Bey
h. Ed Bullins
i. Danny Glover
13. Muslims and the Prison Movement:
Eldridge Cleaver, A Case Study, Folsom, San Quentin, Soledad; Bunchy Carter, associate of Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, Messiah of the Prison Movment, Brother Booker, Kumasi, Geronimo Ji Jaga
14. Muslims and the Black Student Movement: Brother Edward's Jihad, Mar'yam Wadai and the Black Studies Curriculum
15. Islam and the Black Panther Party:
"Marvin X was my teacher", Huey P. Newton
a. Source of the Ten Point Program
b. Terminology: Pig, Babylon
c. Malcolm influence
16. Muslims, Zebra Killers and the Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
a. Ali Sharif Bey as runner for SLA
b. Marvin X's M.A. thesis on the SLA
c. Fatima Shabazz and the SLA
17. The Melvin Black Forum on Human Rights, 1979
a. Minister Farakhan
b. Angela Davis
c. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour
d. khalid Muhammad
e. Marvin X
f. Eldridge Cleaver
18. The Black Men's Conference: The Honorable John Douimbia, Founder
a. Dr. Wade Nobles
b. Dr. Oba T'Shaka
c. Dr. Yusef Bey
d. Dr. Nathan Hare
e. Dezzie Woods/Jones
f. Louis Freeman
g. Marvin X
19. From Black Nationalism to Global Islam:
Khalid Muhammad Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour: A Case Study, The African American Association
20. His Holiness Guru Bawa in the Bay: Man/god/God/man
21. Conclusion: Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality
22. Notes
23. Bibliography: A Short History of Black Muslims in the Bay
Allah, Wakeel, In the Name of Allah, A-Team, Atlanta, 2007
Allen, Robert L., Black Awakening in Capitalist America, AWP, New Jersey, 1992
Al Mansour, Khalid Abdullah Tariq, Black America at the Crossroads
________, The Reflections of an African Arabian in American Captivity
________, Talal, The Challenge of Spreading Islam in America
Ali, Yusef, Holy Qur'an
Armstrong, Karen, A History of God
________, Muhammad
Aslan, Reza, No god but God, Random House, 2006
Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time, Dial Press, NY, 1963
Bloom, Alexander, Wini Breines, eds, Takin' it to the Streets, Oxford, 1995
Bontemps, Arna, Black Thunder, Beacon, Boston, 1963
_______, Conroy, They Seek A City
Breitman, George, The Last Year of Malcolm X, Merit, NY, 1967
_______, Malcolm X Speaks, Grove, NY., 1965
Clarke, John Henrik, ed, Malcolm X, The Man and His Times, Collier, NY, 1969
Cleaver, Soul on Ice
______, Soul on Fire
______, Post Prison Writings, Ramparts, 1969
Diop, Cheikh Anta, Cultural Unity of Africa, TWP, Chicago
DuBois, W.E.B, The Souls of Black Folk, Penguin, NY, 1996
_____, The World and Africa
_____, Black Reconstruction
Foner, Philip S., ed., The Black Panthers Speak, Da Capo Press, 1995
Frazier, E. Franklin, Black Bourgeoisie, Collier, NY, 1975
_____, Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World, Beacon, Boston, 1957
Franklin, John Hope, From Slavery to Freedom, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1980
Genovese, Eugene D, From Rebellion to Revolution, Louisiana State U. Press, 1979
Gitlin, Todd, The Sixties, Years of Hope, Days of Rage, Bantam, NY, 1987
Hilliard, David, Huey, Spirit of the Panther, Thunder Mouth Press, NY, 2006
Houston, Drusilla Dunjee, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, BCP, Baltimore,
1985
Howard, Elbert "Big Man", Panther on the Prowl, BCP, Baltimore, 2002
Jackson, George, Soledad Brother
Jackson, John G., Man, God and Civilization
______, Introduction to African Civilization,
Jamal, Mumia Abu, Live from Death Row, Avon, 1996
James, George G.M., Stolen Legacy, AWP, New Jersey, 1992
Kenyatta, Jomo, Facing Mt. Kenya, Vintage, NY, 1965
Lincoln, C. Eric, The Black Muslims in America, Beacon, Boston, 1961
Martin, Tony, Literary Garveyism, The Majority Press, Mass, 1983
Muhammad, Elijah, Message to the Black Man
________, Theology of Time
________, Fall of America, Muhammad's Temple No.2, Chicago, 1973
________, How to Eat to Live
Oliver, John A, Eldridge Cleaver Reborn
Polk, William R., The Arab World Today, Harvard, 1991
Sertima, Ivan Van, They Came Before Columbus, Random House, 1976
Soyinka, Wole, The Open Sore of A Continent, Oxford U. Press, 1995
Ture, Kwame, Hamilton, Charles, Black Power, Vintage, 1992
Udom, E.U. Essien, Black Nationalism, Dell, NY, 1962
Vincent, Theodore G., Black Power and the Garvey Movement, BCP, Baltimore, 2006
Walker, David, David Walker's Appeal, 1829,
Washington, Booker T, Up From Slavery, Bantam, NY, 1967
Williams, Chancellor, The Destruction of Black Civilization, TWP, Chicago, 1987
Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery, University of North Carolina Press, 1994
Williams, Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose, Berkley, New York, 1987
Young, Henry J, Major Black Religious Leaders, Abingdon, 1977
X, Malcolm, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ballantine, NY, 1965
X, Marvin, Eldridge Cleaver, My friend the Devil, BBP, Berkeley, 2009
_______, Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, BBP, Berkeley, 2007
_______, How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, BBP, Berkeley, 2008
_______, Wish I Could Tell You The Truth, BPP, Berkeley, 2005
_______, Somethin' Proper, BBP, Berkeley, 1998
_______, How I Met Isa, MA thesis, San Francisco State University, 1975, unpublished,
_______, Fly to Allah, Al Kitab Sudan, Fresno, 1969
_______, I Am Oscar Grant, BBP, Berkeley, 2010
24. AUDIOGRAPHY
Nisa Islam (Bey), Cherokee, 2004.
Nadar Ali, Fresno, 2004.
Manuel Rashid, Fresno, 2004.
John Douimbia, Grand Ayatollah of the Bay, San Francisco, 2004.
Minister Rabb Muhammad, Oakland, 2004.
Antar Bey, CEO, Your Black Muslim Bakery, Oakland, 2004.
Norman Brown, Oakland, Oakland, 2004.
Kareem Muhammad (Brother Edward), Oakland, 20
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ReplyDeleteI remember being shipped over to the University of Islam at the Temple in SF as a 14 year old because I was an habitual truant. I thought it was a punishment but it changed my life. We waited every year for Savior's Day to go down on 7th and Pine and hear the Messenger speak. There has been an Islamic presence in the Bay Area for as long as I can remember. The destruction of Your Black Muslim Bakery was like the crumbling of one of the pillars of Islam in the Bay Area.
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