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Farrakhan, Louis (1933-), Religious and Political Leader

On November 8, 1977, Minister Louis Abdul Haleem Farrakhan, the former Louis Eugene Walcott, rebuilt the Nation of Islam, a militant and millenarian religious sect that preached black nationalism.

He succeeded Master W. D. Fard, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and Wallace Muhammad as the key leader of the Black Muslim movement. Born on May 17, 1933, in the Bronx, New York, Louis was raised in Boston by his West Indian mother.

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  • He was an Episcopalian altar boy in the Roxbury section of Boston and graduated with honors from the prestigious Boston English High School, where he also was on the track team and played the violin in the school orchestra. After attending Winston-Salem Teachers College from 1951 to 1953, he dropped out to pursue his favorite avocation, music, intending to make it his career.

    An accomplished musician, Walcott performed professionally on the Boston nightclub circuit as a singer of calypso and country song