Farrakan is a black nationalist separatist. His cult was started by a cannibal named Wally Fard.
In the 1930s, two African American Muslims committed shocking crimes that led newspapers across the country to declare that the Allah Temple of Islam (the precursor to the Nation of Islam) was a “voodoo cult” and its members were practicing human sacrifice.
These allegations resurfaced multiple times in the media and scholarly literature over the next forty years, damaging the Nation’s reputation during the height of their popularity. This article is the first attempt to analyze these sensationalized depictions of the origins of the Nation of Islam within the context of contemporaneous understandings of “voodooism” and the racialized rhetoric of human sacrifice.
https://irstudies.org/index.php/jirs/article/download/257/255/