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Mujahid Abdul-Karim
Imam Mujahid Abdul-Karim (born Benjamin Farmer, December 26, 1944) is an African-American convert to Islam, who is best known for his involvement and "spearheading" of the April 26, 1992 Watts Gang Truce between the four influential rival gangs— Watts Hacienda Village Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips. He is imam of Masjid Al Rasul mosque in Watts, Los Angeles and the leader of The Imam Mahdi Movement.
==Early life==
Mujahid Abdul-Karim was born as "Benjamin Farmer" in the town of Waldo, Arkansas. As an infant his family moved from the rural south to the rural north, just outside Lake Michigan, to the area of Muskegon Heights, Michigan. His father, Benjamin Farmer (senior), was a veteran of the army and worked as a factory worker. His mother, Ledora Jackson, was a homemaker, who was the primary caregiver for his thirteen siblings. As a child, he grew up extremely poor and at the age of nine became a "shoe shine boy," walking across the segregation dividing line ("train tracks") to the "white section" of Muskegon to shine shoes for a "quarter a shine." He would earn about twenty dollars each weekend and gave a portion of the money to help with the expenses of the house.
Consequently, due to this extreme poverty, in 1961, he ran away from home at the age of 16, after pretending to pay a "light bill" for his mother and subsequently purchased a bus ticket, traveling alone across the country to the city of New Haven, Connecticut, to stay with relatives. He would stay in New Haven for the next three years, until on the invitation of one of his older brothers, Edward, was asked to come to move to Chicago, Illinois.
In Chicago was where, while living in the historical African American area of the South Side, Abdul-Karim would soon be introduced to the political ideologies of Black empowerment, self-determination, and human rights, which would later shape his political direction and identity.
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