The Nuwaubian Nation or Nuwaubian movement (over the years known as "Ansaru Allah Community", "Holy Tabernacle Ministries", "United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors", and "Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation") led by Malachi (Dwight) York

Dwight York

Dwight York , also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, et alii, is an American black supremacist and leader of the Georgia-based "Nuwaubian" movement, currently imprisoned on a 135 year sentence for child molestation.York's "ministry" began in the late 1960s, from 1967 preaching to...

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classed as a hate group

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 by Southern Poverty Law Center

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York began founding Black Muslim

Nation of Islam

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groups in New York

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 in 1967, and has changed his teachings and the names of his groups many times.
In the late 1980s, he abandoned the "Muslim" flavour of his movement in favour of Ancient Egypt and extraterrestrial

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 themes, in 1993 leaving Brooklyn for Eatonton

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, Putnam County, Georgia

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, where he built an Egypt-themed compound called Tama-Re

Tama-Re

The Tama-Re compound in Putnam County, Georgia was an Egyptian-themed set of buildings and monuments established near Eatonton, Georgia by Nuwaubians in 1993 that was mostly demolished after being sold under government forfeiture in 2005.-History:On 15 January, 1993, Dwight York bought the...

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By 2000, the "United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors" had some 500 adherents, and drew as many as 5,000 visitors attending "Savior's Day" (York's birthday).
But adherence declined steeply after founder Dwight York was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison in April 2004 for child molestation.
The Tama-Re compound was sold under government forfeiture and demolished in 2005.

The movement was highly eclectic and entirely dependent on York's ever-changing pronouncements, described as "an extra-large dose of Egyptian schlock, served with a side dish of intergalactic mumbo jumbo" by Bill Osinski, author of a 2007 book on York and his arrest and eventual conviction.