Aminah Beverly McCloud's, "African-American Islam" (1995) mentioned Ahmadiyya

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In 1995, Amina Beverly McCloud published “African-American Islam”. In this book she observed that dissension arose among Ahmadis over the fact that more African Americans were not appointed to leadership positions and that the Indian customs of the missionaries and the immigrant Muslims eventually clashed with the African American desires to apply the faith to domestic situations (She seems to be commention on the Ahmadiyya schism in the 1930’s in Pittsburgh and Cleveland or the death of Ahmadiyya in the early 1950′s)(See Aminah McCloud, African American Islam, New York: Routledge, 1995, 21).

However, in the early years the community was certainly highly multiracial in many ways, including in its leadership roles. The Moslem Sunrise contains many such photographs and examples, including highlighting the role of one early “zealous worker for Islam, appointed a Sheikh to work among his people in the district of St. Louis and vicinity,” named Sheikh Ahmad Din (formerly P. Nathaniel Johnson). See, for example, The Moslem Sunrise (July 1922): 119. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq also made Sheikh Abdus Salam an imam in Detroit.

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