Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Wolcott (also mistakenly spelled Walcott)[REF] in The Bronx, New York, the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning (January 16, 1900 - November 18, 1988) and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Caribbean islands.
Wolcott attended the prestigious Boston Latin School, and later the English High School, from which he graduated [REF].