- Ruby Muhammad
Infobox Person
image_size = 150px
name = Ruby Muhammad
birth_date = birth date and age |1897|3|20
birth_place =Sandersville, Georgia ,
United States
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = Mother of the Nation of Islam
(since 1986)Ruby Muhammad is the "Mother of the
Nation of Islam ". She was born inSandersville, Georgia , but grew up inAmericus, Georgia . No birth certificate exists to confirm her age, and it has been reported with significant disparity, although she has claimed in newspaper interviews that she was born Ruby Macie Grayer onMarch 20 ,1897 .Muhammad's mother died when she was very young, and she was raised by a woman she called her aunt, though she now says that this woman was probably not a relative. She did not know her father until she was a teenager. Community records in her birth town indicate that her father died at 107 and her great-grandfather died at 110. [http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/seniors/story/6745838p-7696920c.html Seniors - Number of centenarians expected to double every decade] URL accessed
April 12 ,2007 ]Muhammad joined the Nation in 1946 and was named "Mother of the Nation of Islam" in 1986 by Minister
Louis Farrakhan . [http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=69975 Sacramento News & Review, Interview with Ruby Muhammad] URL accessedApril 11 ,2007 ] This is an honorary title, and Muhammad, who has been married twice, is "not" the widow ofElijah Muhammad , founder of the Nation of Islam.In March 2007, she was still in excellent health, exercising and taking care of herself every day. In 2008, Ruby Muhammad, now known as Ruby Pittman (the name of her second husband), got a scooter as a donation from a scooter store. [http://medical.presslib.com/family-medicine/660074.htm Disabled Sacramento Woman, 110, Receives Power Wheelchair Donation from The SCOOTER Store] URL accessed
February 16 ,2008 ] [cite news|last = Barrow|first = Genoa|title = Mother Muhammad Goes Mobile|work = News|publisher = The Sacramento Observer|date =February 5 ,2008 |url = http://www.sacobserver.com/news/020508/ruby_muhammad_scooter.shtml|accessdate = 2008-05-25]References
External links
* [http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=69975 Sacramento News & Review, Interview with Ruby Muhammad,
July 13 ,2006 ]
* http://rubymuhammad.com/home Mother of the Nations - Ruby Muhammad's website owned by her daughter Paulette Helton
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