About
Best remembered for founding a controversial organization known as the Nation of Yaweh, this black supremacist leader and self-proclaimed Messiah served prison time for arson, extortion, and murder.
Before Fame
Born Hulon Mitchell, Jr. in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, he later settled in Florida, establishing the headquarters of the Nation of Yaweh in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood.
Trivia
He was sentenced under a federal law known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Family Life
He grew up as the son of an Oklahoma Church of God in Christ minister father and a pianist mother. He later fathered a child named Sincere Israel.
Associated With
His sister, Leona Mitchell, had a successful career as an operatic soprano, performing at the Metropolitan Opera and earning a Grammy Award.
