Baldwin, who was deeply disturbed by Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam, still gives a glowing description of its effects on its converts-
"Elijah Muhammad has been able to do what a generation of welfare workers and committees and resolutions and reports and housing projects and playgrounds have failed to do: to heal and redeem drunkards and junkies, to convert people who have come out of prison and keep them out, to make men chaste and women virtuous, and to invest both the male and the female with a pride and a serenity that hang about them like an unfailing light."
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