Aims and contributions

What were the aims? (1)

Depended on charismatic leaders, both saw the struggle in the USA of AAs in a broader context, and both relied on a vibrant newspaper and clear ideas of black superiority

What were the aims? (2)

Dominated by Elijah Muhammad. Believed in Black Nationalism - believed that AAs were the chosen people of Allah

What did links with islamic regions do?

Increase the emotional appeal of the NOI

What did the belief that AAs were the chosen people of Allah do?

Gave the movement a religious strength akin to the power of Southern baptism, behind the SCLC

What was much stronger than other organisations?

Their ideology, as was it’s separation from support from white America or alignment with its values

What were not priorities?

Matters of voter registration and equal political rights

What did members of NOI think?

Efforts of King and the demeaning spectacle of police hoses played on passive black resisters were objects of hatred

Why did the achievements of the Civil Rights Act seem irrelevant?

When the superiority and power of the black race were not accepted