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Malcolm X: Informative Speech
Dedrick Smitherman
Informative speech outline
Ocotber 15, 2014

I. Have you ever wondered who the other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were? There were many great leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. The two main male figures were Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom Little also known as Malcom X who today I will you give you his insight of his beliefs and how they are still relevant today and inform you of background information of his assassination and the explanation behind it.
II. Today, African Americans unarmed are being killed for no reason; for an example the Trayon Martin case and the Mike Brown case. Malcom X in the 1930s-40s preached about how African Americans were treated differently and view unequal and unworthy in the eyes of others and his beliefs are still relevant in today’s news.
III. My cousin Lance was killed by white supremacists and crooked cops in Birmingham before I was even born. Malcolm X’s preachings along with the other Civil Rights Movement leaders were to prevent events like this from happening.
IV. There are many African American individuals who were killed by white supremacists in the wake of blacks trying to fight for their individuality and equality to confront segregation.
V. First I will provide you info about Malcom X’s early life, Nation of Islam teachings and then his assassination.
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I. Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925. He had a very rough early life.
A .According to notablebiographies.com, that I found on today, his family moved around frequently because of racial threats from the Ku Klux Klan. His father, who was a Baptist minister and a follower of Marcus Garvey was murdered when Malcolm was 16.
B. Malcolm turned to crime as his way of relieving stress. According to a biography posted on malcolmx.com found today Malcolm and his bestfriend were jailed for a burgulary in 1946. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison were he reformed his life and read books on philosophy. He took the letter “X” to refer to his

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