A01=Malachi D. Crawford
African American religion
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Malachi D. Crawford
automatic-update
Black Muslims
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBSL
Category=JBSR
Category=JFSL3
Category=JFSR2
Category=JPVH
Category=JPVH4
Civil liberties
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Edward W. Jacko
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Jr.
Language_English
Nation of Islam
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
Religious freedom
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781498511315
- Weight: 281g
- Dimensions: 151 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties as what might arguably be called the inaugural and first sustained challenge to the suppression of religious freedom in African American legal history. Borrowing insights from A. Leon Higgonbotham Jr.’s classic works on American slavery jurisprudence, Black Muslims and the Law reveals the Nation of Islam’s strategic efforts to engage governmental officials from a position of power, and suggests the federal executive, congressmen, judges, lawyers, law enforcement officials, prison administrators, state governments, and African American civic leaders held a common understanding of what it meant to be and not to be African American and religious in the period between World War II and the Vietnam War. The work raises basic questions about the rights of African descended people to define god, question white moral authority, and critique the moral legitimacy of American war efforts according to their own beliefs and standards.
Malachi D. Crawford is assistant director and adjunct professor of African American studies at the University of Houston.
