Minister Louis Farrakhan #1265

Caption from poster__        Minister Louis Farrakhan    Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan  gestures while addressing the million Man   March, in this Oct. 16, 1995, File photo,   on Capital Hill. The 10th anniversary of  Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March,  scheduled for Saturday, Oct, 15, 2005,  in Washington, is shaping up as a stage  for black America to respond to the  devastation in New Orleans.     Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York), is the head of the Nation of Islam Farrakhan was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. His mother had emigrated from Saint Kitts and Nevis in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York, but was not involved in his upbringing. As a child, he received training as a violinist. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had played with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. A year