[Ads-l] "X" (Nation of Islam Replacement for Slave Name, Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

X (not in OED)

1942 Daily Times (Chicago) 21 Sept. 3/2 (GenealogyBank)

Several of the Islam temple members, charged with evading selective service, pleaded guilty and were held under $5,000 bond pending trial.  One, who insisted his name was Leonard X, told Comr. Walker that "Allah told me not to register in the draft."  Another, Henry XX, said his last name had been Burnette, but "that was my slave name."

Fred Shapiro

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