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Khadijah Farrakhan, Wife of Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, Dies at 90
Khadijah Farrakhan died Saturday at age 90 after 72 years of marriage to Louis Farrakhan. She converted to Islam in 1955 and spoke at the 1997 Million Woman March.
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Khadijah Farrakhan, wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for 72 years, died Saturday at age 90. The Nation of Islam announced the death, which occurred seven months after devotees marked her 90th birthday. Born Betsy Ross, she married Louis Walcott in Boston on Sept.
12, 1953. The couple had nine children. , died in 2018, and another son, Joshua Farrakhan, died in 2023. Khadijah Farrakhan converted to Islam in 1955, the same year her husband joined the Nation of Islam after being influenced by Malcolm X. Louis Farrakhan assumed leadership of the group shortly after Malcolm X’s assassination in 1965.
She spoke at the Million Woman March in Philadelphia in 1997. “A nation can rise no higher than its women,” she told the crowd.
Funeral services are to be announced.
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