(1) It is in Fard’s memory that Saviour’s Day is held.
(2) Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation Of Islam, sold silk and salvation in Paradise during the Great Depression.
(3) The experimental data collected in previous studies on experienced (industrial) and inexperienced (non-industrial) materials handlers (Mital 1984a, Mital and Fard 1986) and the patterns of responses between the two populations (Mital 1985, 1987) were used to generate this database.
(4) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
(5) The fact that Fard had set up a religious institution for black people is not remarkable.
(6) For Fard was not a theorist but a fantasist: a man of many disguises, an uncertain background and some very idiosyncratic ideas.
(7) And it is from Fard’s legacy that Farrakhan is desperate to distance himself.
(8) Fard’s message proved so potent it woke her husband from his inebriated state and made him Fard’s most devoted student.
(9) When Fard disappeared a few years later (the last anyone heard from him was a postcard from Mexico), Elijah Poole claimed his mantle.