Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

• 1925-1965
• By Mike Neuhaus Group 3

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Malcolm Xs Beginning

• Born in Omaha, Nebraska
• Father was a Baptist Preacher
• Father was also a leader for Marcus Garveys
  black nationalist organization and the Universal
  Negro Improvement Association.
• Both groups stressed black pride and independence
  along with being separated from whites.

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Continued

• Family was harassed by the KKK and other white
  supremacy groups.
• House was burned down when he was 4 years old.
• Father was murdered when he was 6 years old.
• Lived with widowed mother and barley managed to
  get by during the great depression.

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Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

• The ultimate goal of the NOI was separation from
  whites in order to achieve independent black
  nation-hood.
• Became a member in 1953, Malcolm was very devoted
  to the nationalist religious group.
• Malcolm quickly became Muhammads most valuable
  disciple because of his ways to excite and
  recruit the urban ghettos of American and their
  young black followers.

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Malcolms Views

• Malcolm X did not like whites at all. He
  considered them irredeemably evil.
• He said for African Americans to love the people
  who for centuries have committed unspeakable
  crimes against would be outright insane.
• Does the lamb love the wolf devouring it?
• His pride in himself and his people proved
  powerfully attractive to people whose self esteem
  had been damaged by the surrounding white racist
  society.
• Stated the chief problem facing African
  Americans was whites evil racism.

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More on Malcolm X

• Official Web Site of Malcolm X
• Malcolm X Speech