[2] Howell had drawn upon as an influence the work of the earlier proto-Rastafari preacher Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, in particular the latter's book The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy.
[3] The Associated Press described the teachings of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as having been black supremacist until 1975, when W. Deen Mohammed succeeded Elijah Muhammad (his father) as its leader.
[4] Elijah Muhammad's black-supremacist doctrine acted as a counter to the supremacist paradigm established and controlled by white supremacy.
[5][6] The SPLC described the group as having a "theology of innate black superiority over whites – a belief system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims".
[8][9] Authors of the SPLC's quarterly Intelligence Reports have described the following groups as holding black supremacist views: During speeches given at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall on June 23, 1963,[17] at Oberlin College in June 1965,[18] and at the Southern Methodist University on March 17, 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. said:[19][20][21] A doctrine of black supremacy is as dangerous as a doctrine of white supremacy.