Malcolm X
Malcolm X, arguably one of America's strongest black activists was born on the nineteenth of May 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a son to Earl and Louise Little, and lived in Lansing, Michigan. In 1920 the Little's house was fire-bombed while the family slept inside. This was believed to be the work of the white racists group, Ku-Klux-Klan. Malcolm X along with other blacks were being segregated in most every parts of daily life. They weren't allowed to vote, go to the same washrooms as the whites and were in separate classes in school. Malcom Little saw this discrimination, but could not do anything to help his people. In 1931 Malcolm Little moved to Harlem, New York. Malcolm became a criminal, he sold drugs, stole and was also a pimp. In 1946 Malcolm was convicted for burglary and sentenced to eight to ten years hard labour. In prison, Malcom Little had his first confrontation with the Nation of Islam through meeting a believing Muslim. Elijah Poole also known as Elijah Muhammad made Malcolm become interested in educational things again. So Malcolm started education in history, philosophy, religion and literature. After leaving prison Malcolm joined the Black Muslims (Nation of Islam) within a few weeks and began to work fo
He started to preach non violence and peaceful confrontation. This was a sing that the Nation thought would show them as being weak. Muhammad didn't like being in public. On the twenty-first of February 1965 in Harlem, Malcolm X was shot and killed. His death proved his message by him once saying " there can be know white, black unity until there is black unity. One of the members of the Nation that disapproved Malcolm's message was the culprit. He didn't want Malcolm being TV shows all the time either. We can not be expectable to others until we are expectable to ourselves. This statement made Elijah Muhammad very upset and he warned Malcolm that if he was not to stop these attempts to bring the whites closer to the blacks, there would be serious trouble. He knew about the good relationship between the President and the American people and he didn't want to get in trouble because of any remarks made on the issue. The Nation of Islam saw that Malcolm X was slowly taking over the black Muslims around the US and were displeased with him. The Nation of Islam grew more jealous of Malcolm X when he left the Nation in 1964 to create his own foundation which was called the Muslim Mosque Inc. The final reason why the Nation of Islam did not like Malcom X changing his name was that it proved that Malcolm X did not care for the Nation of Islam and did not want anything to do with them. Most Black Muslims felt like he was doing a good job representing the Muslim movement on TV.
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