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Born Elijah Robert POOLE
African-American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975
Born on October 7, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia, USA , United States
Died on February 28, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Poole's education ended at the fourth grade. To support the family, he worked with his parents as a sharecropper. When he was sixteen years old, he left home and began working in factories and at other businesses.
... Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the seventh of thirteen children to William Poole, Sr. (1868–1942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (1873–1958), a homemaker and sharecropper.
Poole's education ended at the fourth grade. To support the family, he worked with his parents as a sharecropper. When he was sixteen years old, he left home and began working in factories and at other businesses.
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