1. malcom x and martin luther kin
Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. ... My mom knew to tell me to study X because she was not taught about him in school. Her purpose of me learning about X was to pass on a sense of identity, history, and cultural pride. The claiming back of history and racial pride that Malcolm X stressed was given to me by my mother. ... Louis Farrakhan called him a "cowardly hypocritical dog" who "is worthy of death." ...
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