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I thought it was all started by Elijah Muhammed, but apparently, he had an instructor named Wallace Fard, suspected of the FBI of being the same person as a Turkish Criminal immigrant who served time for assault in San Quentin.

Another angle is that he may have been a light skinned Maori (!!!) from New Zealand.

So Black Islam had a non-Black founder, with either of the most likely candidates for the true identity of Fard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad