He is the founding figure of the Nation of Islam, a movement with millions of adherents across its history, and no document has been produced that establishes who he was before he appeared in Detroit around 1930. Historians, journalists and the FBI have each proposed different identities and origins for him, and none commands consensus.
What would resolve this A birth, immigration, employment or court record naming him under a documented pre-1930 identity, corroborated independently of the competing candidate identities already proposed by investigators and journalists.
OpenAmerican religious history; archival and genealogical research; journalism and investigative historyMartha F. Lee, The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian Movement