the continuity that each version of the Nation has enjoyed is not so much organizational,
On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X by Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.
Darn Wops.
The man whom Muhammad had come to hear was known among his black followers as W. D. Fard, though this name seems to have been a distortion of Farrad.
Fard used the peddler’s guise to make his first contacts in the migrant black community.
