The Development of the Nation of Islam in Chicago The development of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad had significant impacts on the creation of Black neighborhoods in a number of large cities in the United States. New York was defined by the shaping of the Harlem n...

African Americans have been struggling for equality for many decades. It only seems that during the 1960's is when there were actual significant advances made. This was about the same time that civil rights came into the political scene. Throughout the South, Blacks were still in the majority, but ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X sent a message of hope to its audience. Here was a chronology of the life of a black man struggling to first cope and then break away from the white world. Regarded as an extremist by critics for his earlier calls for voicing his then radical thoughts, Malcolm X'...