Yusuf Bey (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yusuf Bey (b. Joseph Stephens, December 21, 1935 in Greenville, Texas, d. September 30, 2003 in Oakland, California) was a Black Muslim activist and charismatic leader. After discovering the teachings of Elijah Muhammed in the 1960s, he adopted the name Yusuf Bey and moved to Oakland, California, and then Santa Barbara, California, where in 1968 he opened a bakery. The bakery moved to Oakland by 1971. Renamed Your Black Muslim Bakery, it became the center of a local Black nationalist community. Held out at the time as a model of African American economic self-sufficiency, the business fell apart after Bey's death and a series of murders linked to criminal activities.