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What was the purpose of the newspaper Muhammad Speaks?
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Malcolm X
Prominent figure in the Nation of Islam Malcolm X, 1965.
Muhammad Speaks was founded by Malcolm X to serve as the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam. Its primary purpose was to function as a tool for recruitment and fundraising for the organization. To achieve this, Malcolm X initiated a practice requiring every male member of the Nation to sell a specific, assigned number of copies of the newspaper on the street.1