Black Islam History | Black History | Civil Rights | Black British African American History

This first episode in the Untold Story of Islam series explores black thinkers in London 100 years ago. Before Elijah Muhammad, the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter (#BLM) Duse Ali and Marcus Garvey helped establish pan-African and Islamic powerhouses in London and America. This is before the civil rights movement, before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Montgomery bus boycott, NAACP. It is a largely untold chapter of African-American history.

Although they were both from abroad they re-defined the conversation of what being black and British was whilst blending it with Islam; rebuking the affirmation of Christianity for its role in the slave trade whilst using Islamic liberation theology. Mufti Sadiq was able to formalise the efforts of the Highland Park mosque in Detroit (a titling mistake in the video suggests Mufti Sadiq constructed the mosque when it was constructed by the Karoub brothers) and then establish the longest-established Sadiq Mosque in Chicago.

This episode serves as a Marcus Garvey bio / Marcus Garvey biography and we try to understand who was Marcus Garvey? Follow @sofarunsaid on IG, Soundcloud, Youtube and Twitter

Timecodes
0:00 - Introduction
0:48 - Duse Ali
2:20 - Marcus Garvey & His Relation To Islam
3:25 - Mufti Sadiq Becomes The First Muslim Missionary To America
4:13 - Malcolm X & His Parents
4:25 - Conclusion