Controversial American black-nationalist and religious leader Elijah Muhammad assumed leadership of the Nation of Islam in 1934, upon the disappearance of founder Wallace Fard. Calling himself the “Messenger of Allah,” Muhammad preached that salvation for African Americans, whom he declared to be Allah’s chosen people, lay in withdrawal into an autonomous state. His most prominent disciple, Malcolm X, broke with the Nation in 1964. Why did 19 of Muhammad’s children go on to sue the organization? Discuss