(ISLAM DREW NOBLE ALI) Moorish Science Temple of Americas F

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(ISLAM--DREW, NOBLE ALI.) Moorish Science Temple of America's First Annual Convention. Poster, 28x18 inches; with various vignette illustrations along the borders, printed in blue on a white background; text in columns, with a photo of Drew in the center; faint creases where folded. Chicago, October 1928

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Noble Ali Drew (1886)-1929), born Timothy Drew in North Carolina, gave several versions of his life, all of which were colorful. In the one most generally offered, he said that he was the son of two former slaves, raised by a Moroccan father and a Cherokee mother. After running off with the circus, he acquired a "lost version" of the Koran and was thus inspired to begin his Temple, loosely fashioned after Islam.