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The Moorish Science Temple founded by Noble Drew Ali is the earliest known Black Nationalist group, but it is not racist.

By Brian Birmingham The Moorish Science Temple of America is this country’s first and oldest so-called “Black nationalist” organization, as well as this country’s first and oldest “Black Muslim” organization. It was founded in Newark, New Jersey in 1913, by a man named Noble Drew Ali. Noble Drew Ali called himself... More

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