Malcolm X Influence

On May 19, 1925, Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was the seventh of eleven children. When he was little his family moved to Lansing, Michigan, they were begrudged by whites who hated the nationalist views of his father, Earl Little.

He was an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s back to Africa movement ("Malcolm X." Compton's). For a long time all Malcolm knew was of poverty and violence ("Malcolm X." American) . When Malcolm was six, his life turned into a disaster, his father was murdered, his mother was having nervous breakdowns, and his family was separated by welfare agencies. When he became older he believed that white people destroyed his family. He was put in a multitude of schools and boarding houses, and became a very

In 1952 he met Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, he then began to organize Masjids for the Nation in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and cities in the South, he then began speaking and preaching for different groups of people at different locations. As a very well composed speaker, Malcolm showed his anger, frustrations, and bitterness during big parts of the Civil Rights movement, between 1955 and 1965. He spoke at major Universities like Harvard and Oxford, and preached on the streets of Harlem. His wit and his fierce way of speaking about racism made him a fearsome critic of American society (“Malcolm X” Britannica”). Malcolm was very contentious to people who questioned the Civil Rights movement and its unreachable thoughts of integrations and non-violence ("Malcolm X." The). The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, was described by Malcolm X as, “chickens coming home to roost.” Meaning that his murder was caused because of violence and the building up of racism. His remark was harshly criticized, hated, and hushed by Elijah Muhammad. After this, tension grew between him and Muhammad, Malcolm then broke from the nation of Islam, and the mosque in New york, another political group, and the OAAU

Their mosques became places of a socially improved life and numerous people were drawn to its religious mortally, providing a safe place for salvation and religious protection from the “white devil” (Simon). Malcolm X's sociopolitical message captured a steady responsibility to racial boost during the 1950s and 1960s, energized the aggressiveness of the Black Power Movement, and foreshadowed the racial focuses on development by strongly breaking down American prejudice, and vocalizing the masses of African American' fierceness and dissatisfactions. With a sociopolitical message that was put in Black Nationalism, X gave Black people in America hope of their freedom. He believed that nonviolence was not going to get blacks freedom, people needed to act on it or their situation was never going to get better