Fard

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Fard appeared in Detroit in 1930 and spread his religious teachings throughout Detroit as a door-to-door salesman. Within three years, his movement grew to a reported 25,000 members in Detroit, Chicago, and other cities.

When

First attested
1930 CE
Attested period
1930 – 1930
Historical notes
First appeared in Detroit.

Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“Fard began by selling Oriental silks door-to-door in Detroit's black section. Fard visited the homes of black families who had recently migrated to Detroit from the rural South. Fard told black residents that his silks were the same kind that their ancestors in Mecca used and claimed to be a traveler from that land.”

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