Title: Third Supreme Grand Sheik and Chairman — Moorish Science Temple of America
Tenure: October 1935 – c. 1936 (approximately one year)
Predecessor: Brother William Morris El — Second Supreme Grand Sheik and Chairman
Successor: Brother W. Harlan Bey — Fourth Supreme Grand Sheik and Chairman
Status: Deceased
- Brother E. Walton Bey was the third Supreme Grand Sheik and Chairman of the Moorish Science Temple of America — the office Noble Drew Ali himself established and that has passed in unbroken line since the First Annual National Convention of 1928
- The third link in a chain of eight: Mealy El → Morris El → Walton Bey → Harlan Bey → Lewis El → Bailey El → Davis El → Braswell Bey
Everything you have been taught about your origins on this continent was engineered to keep you from this record — Brother E. Walton Bey held the third position in the only line of Moorish authority that kept the truth intact.
Here is that record.
He Took the Seat
Brother E. Walton Bey assumed the position of Supreme Grand Sheik and Chairman of the Moorish Science Temple of America in October 1935 — the same month Brother William Morris El was expelled from the office.
The third link of Supreme Grand Sheiks and Chairmen took hold the moment the second was removed.
Noble Drew Ali Built the Line
Noble Drew Ali did not improvise the succession. He had built the line in October 1928 at the First Annual National Convention of the Moorish Science Temple of America — naming the office, naming the men and binding the authority of each link to his own.
Bro. E. Mealy El first. Bro. W. Morris El second. Walton Bey third. Harlan Bey fourth. Lewis El fifth. Bailey El sixth. Davis El seventh. Braswell Bey eighth — serving today.
Each name carries the authority of the one before it. Each one connects back directly to Noble Drew Ali.
~One Year
The available record indicates Brother E. Walton Bey held the office for approximately one year. The details of his term — the actions he took in office, the decisions he made, and the circumstances of his departure from the seat — are not currently confirmed in the authorized record.
What is confirmed: he held the third position in Noble Drew Ali’s unbroken line and W. Harlan Bey received the office from him next.
What the Third Link Carried
Brother E. Walton Bey held the third position in the only unbroken line of Moorish authority on this planet — the line that carried Noble Drew Ali‘s teachings, his records, and the lineage of an ancient people through the most contested decade in the movement’s history.
The ancient identity stripped from your ancestors during slavery — buried under “Black,” “Negro,” and “Colored” — was never destroyed. It survived because eight men, in order, refused to let the office collapse.
E. Walton Bey was the third.
If your ancient identity is still within reach today, it is because brothers like E. Walton Bey played their part in a greater purpose founded by Noble Drew Ali.
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