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Malcolm X, Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925 Malcolm X, was an activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith, challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression "by any means necessary." Born Malcolm little, he changed his last name to X to signify his rejection of his "slave" name. Charismatic and eloquent, Malcolm became an influential leader of the Nation of Islam, which combined Islam with Black Nationalism and sought to encourage and enfranchise disadvantaged young blacks
An African- American civil rights leader, Malcolm X was a speaker for the Black Nationalism (Black Muslim). Malcolm X believed in separate nation for blacks. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. At the age of six his father died.
He was later compensated with the post of clergyman of temple No. 7 in Harlem, which most biggest temple in the nation after the Chicago home office. His hard working and his conviction pulled lots of new member to the Nation of Islam, between 1952 to 1963 nation of Islam member grownup 500 person to the 30000 new individuals. Malcom X become very quickly one of the most important leader for the nation of Islam. In 1963 civil rights movement Malcom X found out that his mentor Elijah Muhammad has
His father Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist church minister who had a target on his back. After his father’s death and his mother being institutionalized him and his eight siblings went into foster care; after dropping out of high school he moved all around picking up new things. He had become a pimp, started gambling and robbery. January 12, 1946, Malcolm was arrested for burglary for a stolen watch he had taken to get repaired. After being in prison he started reading everything he could and was inspired by his brothers’ conversion to Islam.
John Elton Bembry convinced Malcolm Little to become more educated in reading more and more. Malcolm also named or referred himself as “Satan”, because of his hatred for The Bible and God. Malcolm Little became interested in reading the Islamic beliefs, because of Bembry. Malcolm joined the organization NOI (Nation Of Islam). Malcolm became a minister of the NOI, in 1952 Malcolm Little changed his surname from Little to X, because he thought the surname “Little was more of a slave
Early in his life, he was adapted to racism because of his parents. At age 6, Malcolm's father was killed by white depression and that played a great impact on his life along with the racism that he faced in school from his white peers. This causes Malcolm to see the world differently. When Malcolm became older he turned to a life of crime which eventually caused him to go to jail. While in jail, Malcolm X was recruited by the nation of Islam while in there.
Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother and father were Earl and Louise little, at the time they couldn't have known how troublesome he would be, but at the same time he himself could never imagined that he would be a leader for the black society. Growing up Malcolm was a troublesome young boy he got into to mountains of trouble and ended up in jail. February 27th is when his life changed, he had started his ten year sentence in the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown. In jail he was nicknamed ¨Satan¨ because of his hostility towards the Christian religion.
On 19 May 1925, Louise Little gave birth to Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska. At first, Malcolm Little led a troubled path of preaching radical Islam and opposing desegregation and integration, but later he converted and worked for racial equality. Because he challenged power, told of immediate troubles, suffered discontent, and provided fear of the Lord, one might call Malcolm a modern-day prophet. In other words, Malcolm shows the characteristics of an ancient prophet, thus making him a modern prophet. Although Malcolm was born in Nebraska, his family moved to Lansing, Michigan when he was just an infant.
He was cheerful, but could not prevent being caught by the police and imprisoned for seven years. Malcolm X, a radical African American civil right activist and a spokeman, broke with the Nation of Islam , a group of which he had been a leading member. Perhaps, no better expressed the anger and frustrations of urban African American than
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem,” remarked Malcolm X in this Letter from Mecca in April of 1964 (“Malcolm, X” 1). For the longest time, Malcolm X believed that there was no way White Americans and African Americans could get along as one. He was against everything Martin Luther King Jr. would preach as a civil rights leader. This letter showed an unbelievable change in the man he was and had been previous to his pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca. Everything he once believed had completely been wiped away.
Elijah Muhammad the spiritual leader of the nation of islam. While Malcolm had been jailed for 7 years, where he educated himself and became a disciple of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm respected him before he even knew him. Elijah led malcolm down the trail of islam and promoted
MALCOLM X Before there was the political leader known as Malcolm X, there was Malcolm Little, a small time crook with no direction. That was until January of 1946 when he was arrested for burglary and later charged with larceny and breaking and entering, which carried a hefty sentence. It was during his incarceration that Little was introduced to the Nation of Islam and he slowly began changing his ways and eventually his name to Malcolm X. In the years following his release, X rose up the ranks of the NOI and became a prominent minister and civil rights activist.
During the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties Malcolm X became one of the most outspoken and often volatile spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X, unlike his counterpart Martin Luther King Jr. who was fighting to stop segregation, believed in a separatist society condemning and accusing the white population of suppressing the black communities by denying access to education and other publicly funded resources. After a pilgrimage to the holy land Malcolm X changed his name and became known by his Islamic name Malik El-Shabazz, and became a nonviolent activist who created organizations to better the black communities. Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925, to parents Louise and Earl Little. Malcolm’s
When he joined the Nation of Islam, he changed his family name from “Little” to “X” as it was “a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their family names to have originated with white slaveholders” (1). Malcolm benefited the organization by being a spokesman and expanding the movement (“Malcolm X.” History. History Channel, n.d 1). He “became the minister of Temple No. 7 in Harlem and Temple No. 11 in Boston” (“Malcolm X Biography” 1). “An articulate public speaker, a charismatic personality, and an indefatigable organizer, Malcolm X expressed the pent-up anger, frustration, and bitterness of African Americans during the major phase of the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 to 1965”
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister who was also African American. He was a activist for human rights, Malcolm was a bold and courageous spokesperson for blacks to have rights,Malcolm X declared America “white America” to have the most harshest of terms for it’s tenacious treatments against African Americans. In the year 1946, he was sentenced to prison because he was caught breaking and entering. When he was incarcerated, he was chosen to become a member of the Nation of Islam. This is when he changed his birth name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. Later he had written,”Little was the name that the white slave master … had imposed upon paternal forebears” After his parole in 1952 his popularity grew and became the organization 's most influential leaders, and served as the public face of the controversial group for a dozen years.
