Object Details
- Description
- This cardboard record sleeve features a portrait of Elijah Muhammad at the center of the front cover. Muhammad wears a fez decorated with the Islamic star and crescent symbol and he also wears a black bow tie. Muhammad looks off camera to the right, his eyes on something in the distance. There are four lines of large black text across the top of the cover which read [MUHAMMAD SPEAKS/The Judgment of the World is/NOW!]. To the bottom left of Muhammad's portrait is a line of diagonal black script which reads [Elijah Muhammad/Messenger of Allah]. To the bottom right of his portrait there is a block of black text which reads [THERE ARE/3 VOLUMES/THIS IS/VOL. 1/PLEASE/PURCHASE/ALL THREE]. This cardboard sleeve is water damaged and tearing along one of its sides.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Produced by
- Muhammad's Mosque of Islam No. 2, American, founded 1972
- Recorded by
- Elijah Muhammad, American, 1897 - 1975
- Date
- 1966
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Malcolm Ali
- Medium
- vinyl, paper (fiber product), adhesive, cardboard, and printing ink
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (sleeve): 12 5/16 × 12 3/8 × 1/16 in. (31.3 × 31.4 × 0.2 cm)
- Diameter (vinyl record): 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm)
- Type
- record covers
- long-playing records
