In this film, host Malika Bilal (Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English) tells the story of these early Black American Muslim communities through a woman named Florence Watts, who moved to the bustling South Side of Chicago around 1910, where she found work as a cook and a maid.
A federal immigration file shows how early border laws shaped the Muslim experience in the U.S.
A photograph reveals the rise of Black Muslim life in northern cities during the Great Migration.
A Lebanese homesteader recalls the building of one of the first mosques on the Great Plains.
