Black Fundamentalism: Louis Farrakhan and the Politics of Conservative Black Nationalism

Black Fundamentalism: Louis Farrakhan and the Politics of Conservative Black Nationalism

October 16, 1995, the largest public gathering of African Americans in history took place in Washington, D.C. The participants had come together under the slogan the Million Man March, with an agenda emphasizing racial pride, personal responsibility, and patriarchal family relations. Estimates of the crowd’s size ranged from five hundred thousand to well over one million. The African American who initiated this demonstration had been vilified in the national media for more than a decade as ...