Malcolm X Assasssantion

Malcolm X Assassination

By Kameron The Civil Rights Movement was when black people did not get treated as good as white people. Black people had to go to a bathroom that said Colored. White kids got a better education. Black people got killed just for walking on the wrong side of the street. Blacks would get whipped with a whip and shoved in a bag and get hit with a bat. Malcolm X was an Afro-American Muslim. Malcolm was involved in the Civil Rights Movement by "being one of the most prominent and controversial black leaders in the Civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s." The Civil Rights Movement was when black people did not get treated as good as white people. Black people had to go to a bathroom that said Colored. White kids got a better education. Black people got killed just for walking on the wrong side of the street. Blacks would get whipped with a whip and shoved in a bag and get hit with a bat. Malcolm X was an Afro-American Muslim. Malcolm was involved in the Civil Rights Movement by "being one of the most prominent and controversial black leaders in the Civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s." Early life

Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm X was effectively orphaned early in life. His father was killed when he was six and his mother was placed in a mental hospital when he was thirteen, after which he lived in a series of foster homes. In 1946, at the age of 20, Malcolm X went to jail because of breaking and entering. He went to jail for 6 and a half years. Malcolm X had a wife and 6 kids Why he's angry Nation of Islam has repeatedly When Malcolm X was growing up he denied any involvement in Malcolm developed a mistrust for white Americans. X's assassination. Hagan, then known Ku Klux Klan terrorists burned his house, by the name Talmadge X Hayer, was and his father was later murdered. When in his early 20s and a radical member Malcolm X was in jail, he made some bad of the Nation of Islam the day he decisions. Other inmates influenced him to become a member of the Nation of entered the ballroom armed and Islam. (Its stated goals are to improve the ready to kill. spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity). The Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. The "fiery civil rights" leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech. Why he's angry Nation of Islam has repeatedly When Malcolm X was growing up he denied any involvement in Malcolm developed a mistrust for white Americans. X's assassination. Hagan, then known Ku Klux Klan terrorists burned his house, by the name Talmadge X Hayer, was and his father was later murdered. When in his early 20s and a radical member Malcolm X was in jail, he made some bad of the Nation of Islam the day he decisions. Other inmates influenced him to become a member of the Nation of entered the ballroom armed and Islam. (Its stated goals are to improve the ready to kill. spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity). The Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. The "fiery civil rights" leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech. Assassination

Frustration is racing through Assassi my mind, because I know that the men were mad at me. nation Something bad is going to happen. Now the crowed is I'm hot, my face is sweating as I hear the screaming, I look behind me, a two men in the back room arguing. I am smoke bomb!! Nobody can getting ready to deliver my speech. Then see anything, then I was on 3:00 p.m. hits. It's time. "I want to point the ground bleeding. I do not out ﬁrst that I am very happy to be here know what just happened. this evening and I'm thankful [to the Afro-American Broadcasting Company] for the invitation to come here to Detroit this evening. I was in a house last night that was bombed, my own. It didn't destroy all my clothes, not all, but you know what happens when ﬁre dashes through -- they get smoky. The only thing I could get my hands on before leaving was what I have on now."

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Malcolm X assassination is important because he was a huge part or the civil rights movement. He was a big part because he was a man that helped Martin Luther King Jr make black and whites be equal. Malcolm X helped MLK make whites be equal by wanting the same thing. Malcolm X and MLK both wanted equal rights but in diﬀerent ways. Malcolm X wanted to get equal rights by violence and anger. Marten Luther King wanted to get equal rights by convensing the government to let black people get equal rights. People say that Malcolm X is one of the greatest black men of all time because he made a lot of black people happy. End

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