Muhammad Speaks Newspaper Salesmen (1965)

A black-and-white photograph of about forty Black men in dark suits and ties holding bundled stacks of newspapers under their arms, standing on the steps of a brick building topped with a crescent and the words "Muhammad's Temple No. 2."

Source: A photograph from the 1960s of Nation of Islam members on the steps of Muhammad’s Temple No. 2 in Chicago, Illinois, with bundles of the Nation of Islam newspaper, Muhammad Speaks (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty Images)

AP African American Studies Guide

A Photograph of Nation of Islam Members with Bundles of Muhammad Speaks Newspapers in Chicago, Illinois (1965)

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