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The connection between Noble Drew Ali, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Garvey are fascinating. Really helps to add a deeper layer of understanding to life in the U.S. during this period of American history.

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The connection between Noble Drew Ali, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Garvey are fascinating. Really helps to add a deeper layer of understanding to life in the U.S. during this period of American history.

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I find the correlation between the artistic movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, and what was happening with religion to be very interesting.

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I find the correlation between the artistic movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, and what was happening with religion to be very interesting.

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There was great competition between groups in order to determine what Islam was and who was included.

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"I am not a Muslim but I read The Final Call/Because within its pages there is something for us all."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3BfbNNl9tI

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At a time when non-whites were facing serious barriers socially, politically, religiously, economically, legally, the development of this movement provided these disenfranchised people with an articulated alternative world view that refuted injustices that were not being addressed in contemporary mores and institutions

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I appreciated Kurt's observation that while the Moorish Temple and other early Black Islamic movements sought to 'de-negrofy' Black citizens, other non-Black immigrants adapted their practice of Islam to everyday working life in the US, which enabled them to assimilate to mainstream (=white) society.

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What is the most important takeaway or new

understanding you have at this point in the

discussion?

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I am really interested and intrigued by the role Islam played in the racial narrative in the United States at this time. This could easily have an impact on the way we teach race relations as well as religious conflict in social studies courses.

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Part of the appeal of Islam for African-Americans, as presented by figures like Noble Drew Ali, rested in the fact that it was distinctively NOT Christian (i.e. white) nor something constructed by Christians, but rather something that was distinctively black (i.e. Moorish).

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The interconnection between the movements of Garvey, Ali, other movements and groups like the masons and shriners

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The combination of ethnicity/race and the unique connection for Afro-Asiatic people to Islam

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I found it really interesting that there was a very commercial aspect to trying to spread the ideas.

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I am deepening my understanding of Islam and how it relates to, and supported, black liberation movements that are rising and responding to the white racist history of America. The emphasis on these movements for self-reliance and self-determination rooted in spirituality are making me think more and connecting to later black power movements.

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I am deepening my understanding of Islam and how it relates to, and supported, black liberation movements that are rising and responding to the white racist history of America. The emphasis on these movements for self-reliance and self-determination rooted in spirituality are making me think more and connecting to later black power movements.