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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD 1960 RADIO BROADCAST
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) became head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1934, following the disappearance of the group's founder, W. D. Fard. This radio broadcast by Muhammad was aired in the NYC area on radio station WNTA on November 23, 1960. It was part of a series of radio broadcasts by the NOI that -- in part -- sought to explain the group's separatist and nationalist racial philosophy to the public. This recording comes from the New York State Archives, New York State Police Non-Criminal Investigations Files Collection. The original reel-to-reel tape on which Muhammad's talk was recorded was physically restored and copied onto cassette audiotape for the NYS Archives by the SUNYA History Department's Oral History Program utilizing a Tandberg reel-to-reel and a SONY dual-cassette recorder. The analog audio was converted to digital audio and compressed to RealAudio file format utilizing Sound Forge 4.0 software. Click on Elijah Muhammad's photo to listen (the version you'll be listening to was encoded for 14.4 Kb/sec. modems; if you have an even faster internet connection and want better quality audio, click here: Elijah Muhammad 1960 Radio Address (for 28.8 Kb/sec and faster connections). . The audio file is encoded for 28.8 kb/sec. or above modems. The interview was conducted on November 23, 1960. Length: 23 minutes, 56 seconds.
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