As an influential African-American leader, Malcolm X climbed to fame in the mid-1950s as an outspoken national minister of the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm challenged the civil rights movement (Malcolm X, Enotes.com). He openly called for black independence and snubbed nonviolence and integration as an effective means of contesting racism. In the 1960s, however, Malcolm rejected Muhammad and the Nation of Islam and embraced conventional Islam. He authenticated his various experiences in The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), a work prepared with the help of American writer Alex Haley.…
First, Malcolm X was born in May 19, 1925 in Omaha NE. Next, He was an African American leader who spokesman for the nation of Islam epitomized. Also Malcolm X was influenced by Elijah Muhammad, Frantz Fanon, Marcus Garvey, Oswald Spengler. He fought for the leaders of Islam. He also had 7 kids and their names are Qubilah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Malaak Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz, Malikah Shabazz. In 1946, they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges, and Malcolm was sentenced to 10 years in prison although he was granted parole after serving seven years.…
Malcolm X or as in his birth name Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha,…
Dropping out of school at 15, he moved to Boston to live with a sister; he soon became active in the underworld in Boston and Harlem, in the areas of drugs, prostitution, and gambling. In 1946 Malcolm Little was sentenced to ten years in prison for burglary. While incarcerated he was converted to the Nation of Islam and became a disciplined adherent of that strict black separatist movement. He also developed an obsession for learning and read voraciously in the prison library. Upon his release in 1952 he moved to Detroit and soon was appointed assistant minister of the local mosque. By now he was known as Malcolm X, following the standard Black Muslim practice of giving up one's "slave" name for the initial X. After other assignments he was dispatched to Harlem in 1954 to lead the important mosque there. Soon he was the most prominent spokesman of the Nation of Islam. During an era when the civil rights movement was promoting integration, he was a powerful advocate of racial separation and black independence, urging American Blacks to renounce nonviolence, Christianity, and the goal of racial integration. on February 21, Malcolm X was preparing to address several hundred of his…
MHS Student on August 15, 2012 Reply Christian Alex Amezquita- Malcolm X has had a lot of events happen early in his life that has affected/shaped him throughout his entire life. For example, there was that time when the welfare workers came to Malcolm's house to split up his family and send his mom to an insane asylum (Kalamazoo). In addition, Malcolm was put with a white family whom treated him like an over glorified dog. He never could feel as if he was one of them, but always felt that he was beneath them. Furthermore, Malcolm's teacher telling him that he could not become a lawyer because of his color really had an impact on him. All of these events gave Malcolm a good reason to become a Civil Rights leader. These events where the wood to his fire and Elijah Muhammad was his flint and steel.…
Malcolm X was born with the name Malcolm Little, in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. Malcolm was a very bright student through grade school, graduating near the top of his class as an eight grader. When one of Malcolm's favorite teachers told him his dream of becoming a lawyer was "No realistic goal for a nigger" consequently, Malcolm lost interest in school . Malcolm then moved to Boston, Mass. working odd jobs, and having a good time. By 1942 Malcolm was participating in drugs, prostitution, and gambling in the New York area. Eventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, moved back to Boston, where they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges in 1946. Malcolm refers to this time of his life as the "Detroit Red"…
Born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19,1925 as the fourth of eight kids. Malcolm’s father, Earl was a preacher and a member of a local civil rights group. Because of this Malcolm’s family often felt the full effects of racism in the south.His family was often harassed by many white supremacy groups. Right after he moved to Milwaukee his house was set on fire and when the all white emergency responders arrived they did nothing but watch the house burn. So his family moved again, two years after that his father was found dead. Although his family believed he had been murdered, because his often received death threats. Instead, the police ruled he was killed in a street car accident. His mother simply could not handle her husband's death, and spent the last twenty-six years of her life in a mental institution. With no parents to take care of him or siblings he was separated from his siblings and sent to a foster home.…
His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm got a lot of his strong opinions and ideas from his father. His father's civil rights activism prompted death threats from a white supremacist organization known as the "Black Legion", forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.…
Malcolm was a black muslim as well as a black nationalist under the guidance of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam which combined elements from both Black Nationalism and Islam, together they sought out to once again resegregate white and black people and create a separate nation from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, this nation would then solely inhabit black people. Malcolm X used the current civil rights movement to fuel his campaign and recruit followers, he spoke at several accredited universities Harvard and Oxford being among them. Malcolm was driven by two things will power and belief, his belief in not only the Islamic teachings but also his belief in the superiority of black people, he used his will power to gather…
The Assassination of Malcolm X was unjust because he was a civil rights activist. As an American Muslim minister himself, he helped change society and its wrongs. However some may argue that he preached racism and violence to his followers.…
I was an American revolutionary. My life was impactful for many individuals; however, my death carried a strong meaning.…
During the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X fought for people whose rights were discriminated against.…
He shined shoes but soon he started to sell drugs. He got locked up for ten years and while he was in school he decided to read a lot of books. He joined the Nation of Islam and he changed his name to Malcolm X and dropped Malcolm Little. The X stands for a tribute to the unknown name of his African ancestors where little was entitled to slavery.…
Malcolm X was a man of strong words and beliefs and was a major contributor to the black societies across the world. He fought for what he believed was right and would give equal rights to his community. Never the less he also educated the young. Though his early life was difficult, he had to overcome the death of his father and his mother mental breakdown which caused her to get hospitalized for twenty-six years. Along his tragedies was denied the opportunity to grow up with his siblings who were all separated and placed in different foster homes. “With his father still father still urging the African American race to take control of their live, he was murdered in 1931”(Pendergast). Malcolm’s father…
However, after landing a job shoe-shining, he started to find himself being drawn into the world of drugs and criminal activity. He gradually became more and more invested in this lifestyle, until 1946, where he was arrested for robbery. He spent the next 10 years in prison. It was during these 10 years, where he decided to convert to the Nation of Islam, alongside his siblings. It was through the Nation of Islam, that a small sect of blacks during this time, could embrace their beliefs of black nationalism. During this time of his life, Malcolm changed his name from Malcolm Little to X. “He took this step to rid himself of the name that his great-grandparents, who were slaves, had been given by their owners,” (Engelbert and Des Chenes, 1999) He changed to ‘X’ as this represented the “unknown name of his fellow African ancestors” (Biography.com,…