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Birth Name: Louis Eugene Walcott
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 11, 1933
Ethnicity: * father – Jamaican * mother – Saint Kittian
Louis Farrakhan is an American religious leader, political activist, and singer. He has been Leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), since 1981. Louis was appointed National Representative of the Nation of Islam by NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. He was a calypso singer under the names “The Charmer” and Calypso Gene. He is also known as Louis X.
Louis is the son of Sarah Mae Manning (later Sumayah Farrakhan) and Percival Clarke/Clark. His father was Jamaican. His mother was Kittian. His parents separated while his mother was pregnant, and he was named after Louis Walcott, from Barbados, a man his mother was seeing at the time of his birth. He was raised partly in Roxbury, Boston. He was raised in the Episcopal St. Cyprian’s Church. Louis converted to the Nation of Islam in 1955, and ministered several mosques in Boston and Harlem.
Louis is married to Khadijah Farrakhan (born Betsy Ross), with whom he has had nine children, including Mustapha Farrakhan, the Supreme Captain of the Nation of Islam. Among his grandchildren is professional basketball player Mustapha Farrakhan, Jr., who is Mustapha’s son.
Source: Genealogy of Louis Farrakhan – http://www.wargs.com