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Ruby Muhammad

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Ruby Macie Muhammad (née Grier; c. 1907 – March 2, 2011) was an American religious figure known as the Mother of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad was born on a farm in Sandersville, Georgia and grew up in Americus. No birth certificate exists to confirm her age, and it has been reported with significant disparity, although she claimed in newspaper interviews that she was born Ruby Macie Grayer on March 20, 1897.

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