Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
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Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur'an; George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim; a Muslim diplomat breaks his Ramadan fast in the White House in 1805.
Malika Bilal, Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English, tells the story of early Black American Muslim communities through a woman named Florence Watts, who moved to the bustling South Side of Chicago around 1910.
Asma Khalid travels to the American Southwest to tell the story of Mir Dad, a Muslim man from South Asia who comes to the U.S. in 1917 and marries a Mexican-American woman on the California-Arizona border in the early years of the 20th century.
Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria; host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people.
Malika Bilal tells the recently discovered story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861, fought in the Union Army and left behind a 200-page pension file.
Even before the United States is founded, tens of thousands of Muslims are already here, captured in West Africa and brought to colonial America in chains; Asma Khalid tells the story of one of these people.
