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 * ''See: Black Nationalist Islam
 * ''The following written work takes the form of an essay.

Black Nationalist Islam is a type of political and religious movement which emerged in the politically fertile and culturally tumultuous times of the 1960s in the United States. A form Islam which undertakes Black Nationalism, a few such movements began in that decade. The The Nation of Islam is the primary exemplar of this unique fusion of Black American culture, Islam, and revolutionary political spirit.

Other Black Nationalist movements, primarily the Black Panthers, were dominant.
There were a great variety of Black Nationalist movements in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, the most prominent of which was the Black Panther Party which is described as a "Marxist–Leninist" organization. They gained some support from other leftists, counterculture & anti-war activists, and a few Hollywood celebrities.

All Black Nationalist organizations in the US are gone now, or reduced to insignificant status.

Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is the singular most prominent Black Nationalist and Islamic organization in the US, maintaining with some prominence into the 1990s. Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the NOI is 91 years years old today and has faded from prominence. Malcolm X was its most charismatic and well-known leader, even if he split with the organization at some point before his death in 1965. From 1963 to 1976, Muhammad Ali was associated with the NOI.