Chuck Bryan

Yeah, for sure.

He was not trying to make friends in his job, even within his own community.

You know, we talked about him being a hardliner and ascetic, and he said that everyone should practice ascetism.

And, you know, he went to Philadelphia at one point in 1955 and said, all right, everyone here needs to get their act together.

You need to lose weight even.

He had leaders in Philadelphia weighing their members twice a week.

And there were penalties if you didn't lose the poundage that he required because he wanted everyone to look a certain way.

About a year later, in 1956, he met civil rights activist Betty Sanders when she joined his temple.

And two years later, when he called her from a gas station phone and proposed, they married in January 1958.

And later that year had the first of what would be six daughters.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, Elijah Muhammad told him to stay out of politics because he was a complete separatist.

He didn't want to be involved in anything that the white white America was doing.

But, you know, Malcolm X basically started doing his own thing.

One of the big sort of early things he did that that ended up being a huge deal was he founded their newspaper.

It was called Muhammad Speaks.

And it became a really it had a pretty wide distribution.

And, you know, I remember even growing up seeing on the streets of Atlanta members of the Nation of Islam.

I feel like they were giving them away.