Malcolm X: "By Any Means Necessary"
During the month of February, we study Black or African American History. During that month, we learn about many African Americans that helped change America in many different ways. Many of those African Americans included Jackie Robinson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and others, some free and some enslaved who sought freedom and equality for their people and wanted to transform America into a more equal and fair country. Among the Civil Rights Movement was Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man called Malcolm X. Malcolm X was an Islamic, African American who alongside Dr. King, helped change the way of life for African Americans in a non violent way. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to Louise Norton Little and Earl Little. He had two sisters, Ella and Mary, and a brother, Earl. Malcolm also had half siblings from his dad's earlier marriage. He too had a family of his he married Betty Shabazz on January 14, 1958 and had six children: Attallah, Quiblah, Ilyasah, Gamilah, Mallak and Malikah. Malcolm had nicknames to which he was referred to in different occasions. For a whil
5) While in school, "Malcolm was a smart, focused student. His teacher told him that his dream would never become reality. He also published an autobiography in 1965, in which he had worked on for two years with another writer, Alex Haley. When Fard Muhammad left the movement in 1934, it was Elijah Muhammad who continued the development of what by then had become known as the Nation of Islam. He founded a newspaper for the Nation of Islam called "Muhammad Speaks" in 1957, and he lead one of the nations largest civil rights events, the Unity Rally in Harlem. Though he left the Nation of Islam, he didn't stop teaching and passing on the word of Islam. After hearing that, Malcolm lost interest in school. King seemed, at least to liberal whites, to be a reasonable man, a man who had a higher moral purpose than most and whose cause was just. This was a violation of the principles of Muslims.
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