Museum object · Record Albums
Judgement of the World is Now! Volume 1
1966
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This cardboard record sleeve features a portrait of Elijah Muhammad at the center of the front cover. Muhammad wears a fez decorated with the Islamic star and crescent symbol and he also wears a black bow tie. Muhammad looks off camera to the right, his eyes on something in the distance. There are four lines of large black text across the top of the cover which read [MUHAMMAD SPEAKS/The Judgment of the World is/NOW!]. To the bottom left of Muhammad's portrait is a line of diagonal black script which reads [Elijah Muhammad/Messenger of Allah]. To the bottom right of his portrait there is a block of black text which reads [THERE ARE/3 VOLUMES/THIS IS/VOL. 1/PLEASE/PURCHASE/ALL THREE]. This cardboard sleeve is water damaged and tearing along one of its sides.
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Catalog reference: 2015.24.1ab
