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Malcolm X Sparknotes

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Malcolm X was a revolutionary leader who dedicated his life to the rights of African Americans. He fought for his people's rights and racial justice in the United States. The autobiography is a powerful story of one man’s journey from a life of crime and violence to becoming an influential leader in the civil rights movement. This book provides insight into the challenges he faced and what it took him to become a well-known leader. Malcolm X’s identity is explored through his struggles with racism and poverty, as well as his search for self-discovery. He was a powerful advocate for black pride and self-determination, and his personal transformation from a street hustler to a Muslim minister is an inspiring story of redemption. …show more content…

It created a new black aesthetic that celebrated African American culture and identity. Writers, poets, artists, musicians and others led the movement. The book has given many examples; from the different hairstyles and wardrobes, to the many varieties of music. The significance of the Black Arts Movement was deeply explained in The Autobiography of Malcolm …show more content…

Some literary devices used in the book are allusions, imagery, paradox, parallelism, personification, metonymy, and synecdoche. “A parallel can be drawn between Malcolm and his father in the sense that their lives are very similar. They both suffer a violent death caused by people who oppose them because of their ideas, and they both become infamous for their ideas and beliefs.” (Francisco) Both were known for preaching their beliefs. Earl Little (Malcolm X’s dad) was a Baptist minister and U.N.I.A (Universal Negro Improvement Association) organizer. Earl’s preachings caught the attention of Klansmen and the Black Legion. They threatened him, but Earl stood up to them. Malcolm believes the Black Legion murdered him. His head was bashed in and run over by a streetcar. Members of the Nation of Islam assassinated Malcolm X. Malcolm X was once part of this group. Earl Little and Malcolm X were murdered because of their ideas and

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Although this creates an immediate negative environment urging Malcolm to form his own views and eventually be led to create the Organization of the Afro-American Movement. The encyclopedia also notes that Malcolm’s

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History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=15110&itemid=WE52&articleId=202565. Accessed 6 May 2018. Neil Hamilton?s book about ,as the title of the book suggests, American Social Leaders and Activists provides an insight into Malcolm?s early life and in his later years how he became a criminal. He also describes the conversion of Malcolm to the nation of Islam and his rise as one of the major activists in the Civil Rights Movement up until his death when he was making a speech. While talking about the life of Malcolm X Hamilton consistently relates his

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This led to Malcolm X being viewed as a violent person. The FBI spread misinformation and fanned the flames towards the Nation of Islam. All of this combined with the fact that the Nation of Islam did not like Malcolm X eventually culminated in his assassination. Like Malcolm X, another important leader of the Civil Rights movement who was wrongfully assassinated was Fred

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Malcolm Little, an african american baby, born to Earl Little and Louise Helen Norton Little in Nebraska, more specifically, Omaha, on May 19th, 1925 would become one of the most influential powers of the 1960’s and history as a whole. He was raised in a house of 8 children, his mother a homemaker, and his father who was a preacher who took regular part in the local branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA). His family was under constant harassment from the local white supremacist groups such as the KKK because of his father’s involvement with the UNIA, so much so that their hands were forced to move elsewhere. That elsewhere came in the form of Lansing, MI, about 1.5 hours west of Detroit, MI, wherein Klan-like members of

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Organized into six topical groups, the author did an excellent job in comparing and contrasting King and Malcolm’s views on subjects including integration, the American dream, means of struggle, and opposing racial philosophies that needless any improvement. An interpretive introductory essay, chronology, bibliography, document headnotes, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support for students. The author explains how Malcolm X came closer than any social reformer in history to embodying and articulating the totality of the African experience in America while Martin Luther King was not only the most important figure in American religious history in the 20th century, he was arguably its most brilliant

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For many African Americans, February 21, 1965, is engraved in their memory as profoundly as the assassination of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr is for other Americans. In the turbulent aftermath of his death Malcolm X's disciples embraced the slogan black power and elevated him to secular sainthood by tonight late 1960s he had come to embody the very idea of Blackness for an entire generation like web Dubois Richard Wright and James Baldwin he had denounced the psychological and social costs that racism had imposed upon his people he was also widely admired as a man of uncompromising action the polar opposite of the nonviolent middle-class oriented negro leadership that had dominated the Civil Rights Movement before him Malcolm was

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The Civil rights activist was born fourth in a line of eight and was an inhabitant of Omaha, Nebraska. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a preacher whom also was an affiliate of The Universal Negro Improvement Association. Even as a toddler the recklessness of encounters with the Klu Klux Klan wrecked the young Malcolm's chastity. At the age four his father made the choice to move the Lansing, Michigan; Where unfortunately the racism did not only presume but increased in negativity. Their house was burned to the ground by a mob of prejudice whites.

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He continued on with this way of thinking for a very long time. The way he was going about it got him into trouble and he was later suspended from the Black Muslims in December 1963, for the way that asserted President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to “the chickens coming home to roost”. After this he traveled to Mecca where he discovered that orthodox Muslims preach equality of the races, which led him to abandon the argument that whites are devils. Malcom then began to change his ways of speaking out towards discrimination. In June 1964, he founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity and moved increasingly in the direction of socialism, he was more sophisticated than in his Black Muslim days.

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Malcolm Little, famously known as Malcolm X, is seen as one of the more influential leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. However, X was not always the suit and tied outspoken civil rights activist known for his advocating of militant violence to defeat oppression. X takes on a transformative life journey that conceived the image he is remembered for today in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told by Alex Haley. X begins his story with a tale of the Ku Klux Klan appearing at his house while his mother was still pregnant with him.

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Imagine living in a world where you are treated differently and regarded as less than human and do not have the same opportunities as your counterparts. This is the world Malcolm X and countless African American knew. Blacks in America were discriminated against in many areas of society from housing, employment, and education. Malcolm X was tired of blacks pleading to be part of white’s society, Malcolm wanted the American dream for Blacks as the constitution of the United States of America promised its citizens ‘By Any Means Necessary’. When Malcolm X was a child, he experienced racism at an early age.

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Thesis: Malcolm X’s speech reflects his advocacy for equal rights and his belief in self defence as a means to achieve justice and is significant for its impact on the Civil Right Movement and the ongoing struggle for human rights outlined in the UDHR. A call for African American self defence and libration. Introduction Attention Getter-

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Proceeding eighth grade, Malcolm moved on to live with a half-sister in Boston, Massachusetts. (“Martin Luther King & Malcolm X on Violence and Integration”) The Great Depression majorly affected this time and Americans sized job opportunities. Job opportunities became scarce and being of African American race placed Malcolm in a difficult situation. Malcolm choose the route of a petty criminal in order to survive.

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Introduction: Malcom X urges the Negro community to fight to gain the equal rights they deserve by taking action against their white oppressors. He emphasizes that blacks will gain their rights either thorough voting, with the ballot, or else through the inevitable violence with the bullet. Thesis [part a] Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also fighting for the civil rights of black Americans in the 1960s, but in a more peaceful manner, Malcom X takes a different approach.

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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.

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