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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
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The 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, coupled with the urban riots of 1964 and 1965, ignited the movement. [1] While thinkers such as Robert F. Williams and Malcolm X influenced the early movement, the Black Panther Party's views are widely seen as the cornerstone.
Fifteen years after being rejected as too controversial, Malcolm X is the first Black honoree to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. The organization’s commission selected the civil ...
The fourth edition of National Geographic’s “Genius” series is essentially a two-for-one proposition, following parallel stories about the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X ...
When Malcolm X arrived, SCLC staff initially wanted to block his talk, but he assured them that he did not intend to undermine their work. [31] During his address, Malcolm X warned the protesters about "House Negroes" who, he said, were a hindrance to black liberation. [32] Dr. King later said that he thought this was an attack on him. [33]
Though the masses know the highlights of the Civil Rights Movement and Malcolm X and Dr. King’s lives, this series is a reminder of what freedom has cost and the price we will continue to pay as ...
The strategy of public education, legislative lobbying, and litigation that had typified the civil rights movement during the first half of the 20th century broadened after Brown to a strategy that emphasized "direct action": boycotts, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, marches or walks, and similar tactics that relied on mass mobilization, nonviolent ...