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Biography of Benjamin Chavis Muhammad
Name: Benjamin Chavis Muhammad
Birth Date: January 22, 1948
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Oxford, North Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: activist, religious leader, labor activist, organization executive, teacher, author
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad
Lifelong political activist Benjamin Chavis Muhammad (born 1948) overcame racial injustice and wrongful imprisonment to become a vocal leader in the civil rights movement. The former United Church of Christ minister and NAACP executive director converted to the Nation of Islam in February 1997.The first political act of Benjamin Chavis Muhammad came when he was a wide-eyed 13-year-old. On his way home from school each day, Chavis Muhammad would pass a whites-only library in Oxford, North Carolina. One day, tired of tattered hand-me-downs and desirous of a book with two intact covers on it, he boldly walked into the library. The librarians told him to leave, but he questioned that demand. "He asked why," a childhood friend told the New York Times. "A lot of us when we were told to go away . . . would just do so, but Ben would always challenge, always ask why." The librarians called his parents, but …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…events:1959: South Pacific debuted1963: John F. Kennedy was assassinatedThe Guggenheim Museum held the first major showing of Pop Art1964: Lyndon Johnson enacted Civil Rights ActThe Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed1967: Race riots broke out in Detroit1969: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon1974: Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States1980: Lech Walesa became the leader of Poland's Solidarity Party1989: The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred Further Reading periodicalsAudubon, January-February 1992, p. 30.Black Enterprise, July 1993, p. 17.Boston Globe, April 10, 1993, p. 3; April 18, 1993, p. 85.Detroit Free Press, April 14, 1993.Ebony, July 1993, pp. 76-80.Economist, April 17, 1993, p. 27.Emerge, June 1993, pp. 27-28; September 1993, pp. 38-42.Jet, April 26, 1993.New Journal, September 15, 2000. Available from http://www.newjornalg.com/.Newsweek, August 1, 1983, p. 9; June 14, 1993, pp. 68-69; August 29, 1994, p. 27.New York Times, April 10, 1993, p. 10; April 11, 1993, p. 20; May 2, 1993.People, July 19, 1993, pp. 65-66. Time, July 19, 1993, p. 33.USA Today, October 12, 2000. Available from http://www.usatoday.com/.Wall Street Journal, April 12, 1993, p. B5.Washington Post, April 10, 1993, p. A1; April 26, 1993.
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