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Malcolm X inspires militant struggle against racism
By Monica Moorehead
Published Feb 18, 2007 5:55 PM
On Feb. 21, 1965, revolutionary Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated while making a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, N.Y. He was only 39 years old. To this day, it is still widely believed throughout progressive sectors that the U.S. government was very much behind his death. Malcolm X |
Consider the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a repressive arm of the U.S. Justice Department, began keeping a file on Malcolm X—then Malcolm Little—in March 1953, upon his release from prison. It was during his prison term that he became politically radicalized and joined the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization.
The file on Malcolm X, more than 3,600 pages and 19 sections, was part of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program—COINTELPRO—which targeted political formations and individuals advocating various forms of liberation struggles of oppressed nationalities.
Malcolm X evolved into one of the most dynamic representatives of the NOI and the Black struggle. He traveled throughout the United States, speaking to predominantly Black audiences and to many white college students about the political and economic oppression of Black people inside the United States and worldwide.
Malcolm used historical facts and disarming political formulations to explain in a popular manner why Black nationalism was a more than justified response to an institutionalized racist ideology, as opposed to being “anti-white”—a distorted view projected by the big-business media.
He popularized the concept of Black people’s right to armed self-defense against the state-sponsored racist terror of the police and the U.S. government. This concept helped to give birth to the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif., in 1966, and to other revolutionary formations like the Young Lords, a Latin@ youth organization.
He along
Malcolm X inspires militant struggle against racism
By Monica Moorehead
Published Feb 18, 2007 5:55 PM
On Feb. 21, 1965, revolutionary Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated while making a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, N.Y. He was only 39 years old. To this day, it is still widely believed throughout progressive sectors that the U.S. government was very much behind his death. Malcolm X |
Consider the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a repressive arm of the U.S. Justice Department, began keeping a file on Malcolm X—then Malcolm Little—in March 1953, upon his release from prison. It was during his prison term that he became politically radicalized and joined the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization.
The file on Malcolm X, more than 3,600 pages and 19 sections, was part of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program—COINTELPRO—which targeted political formations and individuals advocating various forms of liberation struggles of oppressed nationalities.
Malcolm X evolved into one of the most dynamic representatives of the NOI and the Black struggle. He traveled throughout the United States, speaking to predominantly Black audiences and to many white college students about the political and economic oppression of Black people inside the United States and worldwide.
Malcolm used historical facts and disarming political formulations to explain in a popular manner why Black nationalism was a more than justified response to an institutionalized racist ideology, as opposed to being “anti-white”—a distorted view projected by the big-business media.
He popularized the concept of Black people’s right to armed self-defense against the state-sponsored racist terror of the police and the U.S. government. This concept helped to give birth to the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif., in 1966, and to other revolutionary formations like the Young Lords, a Latin@ youth organization.
He along