malcom xx
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- I was born in nebraska , while an infant i moved with my family to lansing, michigan, My father passed away when i was 6 and my mom was sent to an insane assylum. My siblings and i went to foster care after
- when i was in the 8th grade i was a great student, i wanted to be a great lawyer but my teacher told me i should become a carpinter instead . That chrushed me and i lost interest in my dreams and my education, i was the leader of theives in ruxbury and harlem.
- While in prison for robbery from 1946 to 1952, i underwent a conversion that eventually led him to join the Nation of Islam, an African American movement that combined elements of Islam with Black nationalism.
- Malcolm X was a practitioner of the Black Muslim faith, which combines the religious aspects of Islam with the ideas of both black power and black nationalism. Wallace Fard founded the Nation of Islam in the 1930s. Christianity was the white man's religion, declared Fard.
- When I was released from prison, I helped the nation of Islam throughout the period of its growth. Not long after I met Elijah Muhammad in Chicago 1952 and then began establishing temples for the Nation in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston as well as cities in the South.
- Malcolm rose rapidly to become the minister of Boston temple No.1, recognizing his intelligence and ability, Elijah Muhammad who was close with Malcolm, named him the National Representative of the Nation of Islam, second in rank to Muhammad himself.
- I was an articulate public speaker, and had a charismatic personality. I expressed the pent-up anger, frustration, and bitterness of African Americans during the major phase of the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1965.
- I also criticized the mainstream civil rights movement, challenging Martin Luther King, Jr.’s central notions of integration and nonviolence. I argued that more was at stake than the civil right to sit in a restaurant or even to vote—the most important issues were Black identity, integrity, and independence.
- In 1963 there were deep tensions between Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad over the political direction of the Nation. Malcolm urged that the Nation become more active in the widespread civil rights protests instead of just being a critic on the sidelines.
- Malcolm was assassinated while delivering a lecture at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Three members of the Nation of Islam were arrested. The 3 members were arrestedMuhammad AzizKhalil Islam Mujahid Abdul Halim
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