The Black Muslims, also known as the "Nation of Islam", had branches in Detroit, Chicago, and New York. ... He made parole in 1952 and undertook organizational work for the Nation of Islam. ... Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form the Muslim Mosque, Inc., his own group of Muslims in March of 1964. ... (Malcolm X 1965) The Nation of Islam constantly harassed Malcolm and his family. ... The Nation of Islam was very focused on their goal, to kill Minister Malcolm X. ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Black Muslims, also known as the "Nation of Islam", had branches in Detroit, Chicago, and New York. ... He made parole in 1952 and undertook organizational work for the Nation of Islam. ... Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form the Muslim Mosque, Inc., his own group of Muslims in March of 1964. ... (Malcolm X 1965) The Nation of Islam constantly harassed Malcolm and his family. ... The Nation of Islam was very focused on their goal, to kill Minister Malcolm X. ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He evolved from a streetwise teenager, to a Muslim minister, and finally, a militant leader of thousands of people in the Nation of Islam. ... He had to find a way to spend all of his time doing Muslim work. ... Muhammad Speaks became the official publication of the Muslim movement. ... In March of 1964, Malcolm founded Muslim Mosque Inc. ... Before Malcolm could officially get Muslim Mosque Inc off the ground there was one thing that he had to do, make a pilgrimage to Mecca just as every Muslim should. ...

• Word Count: 2341
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His younger brother Reginald steered him towards Allah and the Islamic beliefs. ... He stayed with this phase for many years until he was silenced by Elijah for breaking an Islamic rule. ... He remained a Muslim but had very different views than his mentor Muhammad. ... I believe that the most important point in Malcolm's life is when he converted to the religion of Islam while in prison. ... Many of his ideas when he first became a Muslim were very appealing to other Muslims and other Black people. ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He thought he could actually be accepted and become a Muslim. ... Malcolm Little was 27 years old when he entered the Nation of Islam in 1952. ... The X was used instead to represent his lost African name like many other African American Muslims did. Malcolm X quickly rose his membership status by proving he was a loyal and passionate Muslim to the Nation of Islam. ... He inspired others as he told about when he turned his own life around from selling drugs and committing burglaries to becoming a sober person and Muslim. ...

• Word Count: 1673
• Approx Pages: 7

While in prison, Malcolm became interested in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the black Muslims also called the Nation of Islam. Malcolm spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the black Muslims, who advocated racial separation. When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a Black Muslim temple in Detroit and became the most prominent spokesperson for the Nation of Islam by the early 1960's. ... He changed the Nation of Islam "X" in his name to an orthodox name. ... El-Shabazz created his own organization called Muslim Mosque Inc., which was a grou...

• Word Count: 2034
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Malcolm was soon appointed minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ... In 1964 he terminated his relationship with the Nation of Islam and founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. Now that Malcolm had left the Nation of Islam, he wanted now to find the truth and began to learn Orthodox Islam. ... He now realized the true Islam and that a man's colour has no bearing on the man himself. "The colour-blindness of the Muslim world's religious society and the colour-blindness of the Muslim world's human society: these two influences had each day been making a greater impa...

• Word Count: 2097
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He became a follower of Elijah Muhamad's Black Muslims (Levy 137). When he was released from prison in 1952 he became a minister of the Black Muslims. ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ... After X became independent from the Black Muslims, he seemed to grow closer to King. ... The Nation of Islam was believed to be behind the bombing. ...

• Word Count: 1782
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He became a follower of Elijah Muhamad's Black Muslims (Levy 137). When he was released from prison in 1952 he became a minister of the Black Muslims. ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ... After X became independent from the Black Muslims, he seemed to grow closer to King. ... The Nation of Islam was believed to be behind the bombing. ...

• Word Count: 1781
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Malcolm spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the Nation of Islam (later known as the Black Muslims). ... The Nation of Islam also strictly followed the Islamic belief. ... Many Muslims kept the name "X" because in math, "X" is represented as an unknown variable like their real last name. ... To represent the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad chose Malcolm X. ... These events eventually led to his break away from the Nation of Islam. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It was during this time that his brother Reginald came to visit and told Malcolm about his recent conversion to the Muslim religion. Intrigued, Malcolm began to study the teachings of the Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad. ... The series explored the fundamentals of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm's rise and emergence as one of its great leaders. ... - After befriending and ministering to boxer Cassius Clay, the boxer decides to convert to the Muslim religion and join the Nation of Islam. ... - In March 1964, after his split with the NOI, Malcolm forms ...

• Word Count: 1624
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

While King explicitly anchored his actions for civil rights in his protestant Christianity, Malcolm X's life and message informed by two Islamic contexts, the Nation of Islam and Traditional Arab Islam. ... Elijah Muhammad converted Malcolm into the Nation of Islam. ... While he left the Nation of Islam (NOI), Malcolm X was still a Muslim and did abandon his commitment to free his fellow African Americans from such crippling bonds. ... " He founded the Muslim Mosque Inc. ... When asked by a group of fellow Muslims on their hajj, what impressed him the most, he answered: "The bro...

• Word Count: 2128
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Malcolm became interested though in a black nationalist group called "The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North-America", or "The Black Muslims". ... The thought of being free from oppression, instilled excitement and a drive to study the teachings of the Nation of Islam. ... The Nation of Islam preached that the only solution to the race problem was separation of the races. ... The Nation of Islam was passive even though it encouraged self...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Islam allows for him to have an outlet for his prejudice against whites. Islam didn't discriminate. ... Malcolm believed all Muslims needed to make the trip to Mecca. ... He eventually sets up his own Muslim Mosque Inc. ... He saw Islam as a system to destroy all boundaries of color and he believed that in order for America to get over its racist and oppressive ways it needed to adopt Islam, "America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem....

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School