There was at least one in-between. Elijah’s kid took over for a while.
Yes, but it was Elijah that Malcolm X called out as a fake.
He pointed out that EM’s message wasn’t one that would move the black man forward but one that used the emotions of the black man to do _his_ bidding in destroying the djoos in America.
His early converts were overwhelmingly from prisons.
He called out EM for co-opting the tenets of Islam, twisting it to influence blacks that _his_ version was the true (African) version...the first religion of the first people.
The dgoos were the interlopers.
The remnants of that “teaching” are still with us today.