Ruby Muhammad, Ruby Macer Grayer (born March 20, 1907 in Sandersville, Georgia, March 2, 2011, in Sacramento, California) is an American religious and political activist from the Islamic People's Republic of America, an African-American Islamic community.
Early orphaned by her mother, she grew up in a difficult environment, working in plantations (including the Plains plantation in Georgia, owned by future President Jimmy Carter). She joined the People of Islam in 1946 after the death of her first husband. She cooperated with the founder of the movement, Elijah Muhammad, accompanying him in missionary work. In 1986, pastor Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the movement after Muhammad's death, in recognition of his many years of service, gave her the title of "Mother of the Nation of Islam." In spite of the old age, Ruby Muhammad continued to work in motion. In 2001 published a collection of poems Who Do They Say I Am?
She died of lung cancer shortly before she was 104.
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