Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali. Citizenship is salvation, preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Alis message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, one that would both ensure protection for all Americans under rights guaranteed by the law and correct the unjust implementation of law that prevailed in the racially segregated United States. Ali and his followers took on this mission of citizenship as a religious calling, working to carve out a place for themselves in
