King he contributed so much to the civil rights movement as well, yet my knowledge on this man was very minimal. After reading this book I was perplexed! I wonder why Malcolm X hasn't been given the same respect as Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X was barely mentioned. The majority of those pages were on Rosa Parks and Dr. In High School my history syllabus covered just a few pages on African-American civil rights heroes. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” - Malcolm X I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda. Malcolm has become a sort of tabula rasa, or blank slate, on which people of different positions can write their own interpretations of his politics and legacy. The meaning of his public life - his politics and ideology - is contested in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is challenged. Kelley wrote, 'Malcolm X has been called many things: Pan-Africanist, father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist, and a menace to society.

Less than a year later, he was assassinated in Washington Heights on the first day of National Brotherhood Week.

and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam.Īfter leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he made the pilgrimage, the Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim.

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