The son of a homemaker named Louise and a preacher which was also an active member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association named Earl, suffered racism since he was a little kid, as long as his father was frequently harassment by white supremacists groups. When he was 4, a Ku Klux Kan member smashed all the windows of their home, with caused their move to a city in Michigan. But contrarily for their plans, things got worst there, and his house burned on fire to the ground, after all the cops and fireman refused to help them. Two years later his father was murdered, and unfortunately his mom never recovered from this trauma and six years later was sent to a psychological center, and her sons were sent to live with family friends. .
By the time that he was 15 he studied at West Junior High School, and was the only black at the institution. He was very good academically and his colleges seemed liked him choosing him as the president of the class. But he dropped out for school after an English teacher destroyed his dreams telling him to be more realistic, that he would never course law school so he should think on carpentry. .
He moved to Boston to live with his sister which helped him on finding a job. But he lost himself on drugs and the crime. This terrible phase stopped when he was arrested in 1946, and stood 10 years in jail. During this period he read a lot on an attempt to make up for the years that he lost dropping out from high school. There he got to know a small sect of black Muslims who supported ideology of Black Nationalism. So he converted to Islam and when he got out he decided to change his surname "Little" considered by him as a relic of the slavery to "X" in honor of the unknown name of his ancestors. .
When he got out, he went to visit a mosque and started to work with Elijah Muhammad the leader of the Nation of Islam. With the years passing he started being minister in lots of cities and on the 60 decade he created the newspaper named "Muhammad speaks" which proposes was to promote the message of the Nation of Islam.
(Malcolm X Biography). ... (Malcolm X biography). ... After finding out about all of this Malcolm left the Nation of Islam in 1964 (Malcolm X Biography) . ... (Malcolm X Biography). ... Malcolm's legacy would later be remembered through the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (Malcolm X Biography). ...
Malcolm X Malcolm X is a person who had changed throughout his life, because of the influences, and impact in different people. For example, in the book, The Auto-biography of Malcolm X, when he was a boy, a teenager, he was always getting in trouble at school. ... This is Malcolm X in the book. ... In the movie, Malcolm X, he was a lot nicer. ... This is how the portrayals of Malcolm X in the book and movie are different. ...
Official Web Site of Malcolm X I visited the CMG Worldwide website (www.cmgww.com) and clicked over to the section on Malcolm X. The web pages under Malcolm X are very contemporary, with a black background and gray link boxes such as Biography, Timeline, Quotes, Eulogy and Library. ... The CMG approach to Malcolm X is that of a brief biography, followed by excerpts from his speeches and quotes. CMG gives a straight forward approach to the story ok Malcolm X. ... I was truly surprised at some of the information on in Malcolm's biography. ...
Activists such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks, led there people. ... Malcolm X's biography was written in a laid back fashion. ... Malcolm X was one of the most influential leaders of all time. ... Malcolm X is one of those people. ... Malcolm X didn't care for degrees he just wanted to learn. ...
Malcolm X was a man who had a too-short life with many unfair and sad occurrences. ... According to several biographies Malcolm Little left school embittered after a junior high school year teacher told him being a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger". ... As for the beginning of Malcolm X's life he did not have a very positive affect on people's lives. ... "Malcolm X was a man who went through many transformations in his life. ... Malcolm X told African Americans it was acceptable to be angry and demand change. ...
The Biography tells stories of unjustly and ungodly acts committed towards the Black men in America during those eras. ... During Malcolm X early years Malcolm experiences his father's preaching of Marcus Garvey. ... Malcolm X had a different type of self-education. ... Malcolm X went into the Nation of Islam. ... Malcolm X was a very radical person for his time. ...
Biography In the course of human history there will always be change. ... Malcolm X was one of those few that would die trying to achieve that attention. ... In March 1964 Malcolm X terminated his relations with the NOI. ... Malcolm X is buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. ... Evaluation Malcolm X undoubtedly changed the course of our history. ...
The second volume of Taylor Branch's ambitious history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times begins, approximately, in the spring of 1963 and ends two years later with the assassination of Malcolm X and the first events that culminated in the massive marches in Selma, Alabama in the early spring of 1965. ... As the author explains, "I have tried to make biography and history reinforce each other by knitting together a number of personal stories along the main seam of an American epoch" (p. xiv). ... All of this material offered a sharp focus and high historical drama, which the author ...
In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. First, he discusses the "old Islam" brought over with the slaves. Then turner describes how "new Islam" was formed out of Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalistic doctrines of the late nineteenth century. Finally, Turner goes on to talk about different sects of new Islam in the black community. Part one of the book is called "Root Sources". ...
