Long Live Muhammad! African-American Muslims in 1975.

                                                      Jesse Jackson. 

Following Muhammad Ali, civil rights icon Jesse Jackson takes the stage noting that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad life was relevant not merely to the Muslims who followed him but to all black people all across the world.

Jesse Jackson Jr. credits the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for spearheading black consciousness in America resulting in African-Americans seeing themselves in a new light outside the confines of black inferiority. Jesse Jackson Jr. states that not only did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad take black people out of the slums but he took the slums out of black people.

While many journalist were concerned with the economic empire of the Nation of Islam, Jesse Jackson Jr. says what is most important is the spiritual empire that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad established and he lauds Imam W.D Muhammad for his willingness to continue this spiritual empire.

Next is Imam Siraj Wahaj.