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Florida Forum: Louis Farrakhan Interview | 1984
FLORIDA FORUM
DATE RECORDED: 9-7-84
DATE AIRED: 9-9-84
MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN – NATION OF ISLAM
MARK WOLIN – 7 NEWS
MARK LODNER – 7 NEWS
LARRY BURNS – MIAMI HERALD REPORTER
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in The Bronx, New York City, the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning (1900–1988) and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Anglo-Caribbean islands. His mother was born in Saint Kitts, while his father was Jamaican. The couple separated before their second son was born, and Farrakhan says he never knew his biological father.
In a 1996 interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., he speculated that his biological father, “a light-skinned man with straight hair from Jamaica”, may have been Jewish.
After his stepfather died in 1936, the Walcott family moved to Boston, where they settled in the largely African-American neighborhood of Roxbury.
Walcott received his first violin at the age of five and by the time he was 12 years old, he had been on tour with the Boston College Orchestra. A year later, he participated in national competitions and won them. In 1946, he was one of the first black performers to appear on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour,[20] where he also won an award. Walcott and his family were active members of the Episcopal St. Cyprian’s Church in Roxbury.
Walcott attended the Boston Latin School, and later the English High School, from which he graduated. He completed three years at Winston-Salem Teachers College, where he had a track scholarship.
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