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Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad [3] ( / fəˈrɑːd /; [citation needed] reportedly born February 26, c.1877 [4] [a] – disappeared c.1934 ), was the founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an ambiguous background and several aliases, and proselytized idiosyncratic Islamic teachings to the city's black ...
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps. [1]
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
History. The first mosque in the city was the Highland Park Mosque, and the first imams who lived in Detroit were Kalil Bazzy and Hussein Adeeb Karoub. This first mosque failed in 1922. A multiethnic coalition founded the Universal Islamic Society (UIS), the city's second mosque, in 1925. [1] Early Muslim communities in Detroit "navigated ...
The Detroit metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin, including Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the United States. [1] As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeast Michigan traced their descent from the Middle East. [2] Dearborn 's sizeable Arab community consists largely of Lebanese people who immigrated for jobs in the auto industry in the ...
Shanae Fletche, 20, was killed during a mass shooting at a Detroit block party. A 21-year-old man was also killed, and 19 other people in their teens or 20s were injured. No arrests have been made.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A series of violent weekends threatens to undo the work Detroit has done to have its lowest crime rate in 60 years. Two people are dead, 19 were wounded after gunfire ripped ...
Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past is a 2014 book by Sally Howell, published by the Oxford University Press. It discusses the Muslims of early 20th century Detroit, Michigan, and Detroit prior to 1970.