Weekly newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, including local, national, and international news, which served as the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam.
Physical Description
twenty-eight pages : ill. ; 40 x 29 cm. Digitized from physical pages.
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Weekly newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, including local, national, and international news, which served as the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam.
Physical Description
twenty-eight pages : ill. ; 40 x 29 cm. Digitized from physical pages.
Notes
Muhammad Speaks was one of the most widely read newspapers ever produced by an African-American organization. It was the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam from 1960 to 1975, founded by a group of Elijah Muhammad's ministers, including Malcolm X.
Preferred Citation:
J.J. Barlow Papers (AR0752), University of North Texas Special Collections
Volume:
5
Issue:
43
Edition:
1
Collections
This issue is part of the following collections of related materials.
J.J. Barlow Papers
This collection contains various materials such as, correspondence, newspapers, essays, audio recordings, notes and programs concerning the Black Panther Party, the civil rights movement in the United States, and African American history.
The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) partners with communities, publishers, and institutions to promote standards-based digitization of Texas newspapers and to make them freely accessible.
This broad survey of historic newspapers was written for and published by African Americans. The materials provide a record of the culture, daily life, and history of African American communities across the United States.
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975.Muhammad Speaks (Chicago, Ill.), Vol. 5, No. 43, Ed. 1, Friday, July 15, 1966,
newspaper,
July 15, 1966;
Chicago, Illinois.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1921419/:
accessed July 9, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.