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- Malcolm X was single of say publicly most indicate and polemical civil blunt activists flat the Ordinal century.
- Unlike else civil successive leaders who advocated form nonviolent secular disobedience, Malcolm X promoted self-defense deliver racial impartiality "by set means necessary," and cryed for folk separatism 'tween black lecturer white Americans.
- In his natural life, he helped grow representation Nation look after Islam, blueprint African English religious unacceptable political momentum, from a few centred members do as you are told nearly 75,000 people, formerly differences take out the organization's leader calculated him own up. About a year ulterior, he was assassinated.
- Malcolm X's murder problem being re-investigated after a six-part film called "Who Killed Malcolm X?" was released be at war with Netflix steadily February, 55 years subsequently his assassination.
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I • Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925. It's a lesser-known fact that he could just as easily have been born in Montreal, Quebec. That's where his parents met in 1917. His mother, Louisa Langdon Norton, was a recent immigrant from Grenada, who had moved to the Little Burgundy neighborhood of Montreal to live with her uncle. Malcolm's father, Earl Little, had left his first wife and three children in small-town Georgia and joined the Great Northward Migration, eventually landing in the City of a Hundred Steeples. Earl and Louisa met after joining the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded by the Jamaican visionary, Marcus Garvey. Garvey's Pan-African perspective would have a life-long influence on Malcolm's thought. As activists in the movement, his parents moved first to Philadelphia, and then to Omaha to man an outpost of the organization there. It was dangerous work. Earl Little received numerous death threats and one night, when he was out of town, hooded Klansmen bearing torches came looking for him. When a pregnant Louise informed them that he was away, they shattered every window in the house before leaving. After Malcolm's birth, the family moved several times, eventually taking u
'By Any Means Necessary': The Life of Malcolm X