Nuwaubian Nation publications and VHS tape

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 8702

Content Description

Nine books and booklets, one VHS tape, two children’s coloring books, two Tama-Re passport applications, one Church of Karast newspaper, six pieces of ephemera, three downloads from the now defunct “egiptianmysteries” website, and two photocopies of related newspaper articles.

Dates

1996 - 2001

Creator

York, Dwight D. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Dwight D. York, also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr. York, and other names, was born in Boston in 1945. He created a Black Nationalist religious community, Ansaaru Allah in the 1960s, and related organizations under other names in the 1970s and 80s. These groups incorporated components of black nationalism, UFO religions, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the Nation of Gods and Earths. The last of these groups was called the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, or Nuwabians. In 2004 York was convicted of child molestation and was sentenced to 135 years in prison.