The Transformation

1
The Transformation

• Minister Malcolm

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The Son

• Malcolm found two main themes attractive the
  idea of the white man as the devil and the
  "affirmation of black people's cultural history
  going back to the continent of Africa, before the
  European slave trade and the infamous 'peculiar
  institution' in north America."

3
The Mother Continent

• "the utter rejection of white values and the
  embracing of black history and culture--lay at
  the heart of EM's teachings, and they became the
  center of M's philosophy.

4
The Father Figure

• However, m was not only converted to em's ideas
  but to the man himself. "

5

• He educated himself slowly and painfully, copying
  words out of the dictionary. He read everything
  he could get his hands on.

6
Minister Malcolm

• Malcolm was paroled in 1952 just as MLK was about
  to begin his second year of his PhD at BU. He
  left mass and went to Detroit where his brother
  hooked him up with a job at the furniture store.

7
The Emotional Impact

• In a month's time after he arrived in Detroit he
  met Elijah Muhammad when temple no. 1 visited
  temple no. 2 in Chicago where the NOI was
  headquartered.

8
Fishing

• Malcolm spent a lot of time "fishing" or
  recruiting for the NOI. He was not satisfied
  with the progress he was making in trying to
  recruit his "poor, ignorant, brainwashed black
  brother."

9
Certain Realities

• Malcolms experience in the ghetto lead him to
  believe that the masses of blacks could not be
  intergrationalists nor nonviolent.

10
Could Not Trust

• Although Malcolm had some good experiences (the
  Swerlins, Jewish male friend, Sophia, even Mr.
  Ostrowski (who meant well)) with whites his
  upbringing in the ghetto taught him that whites
  could not be trusted.

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The Difference

• Martin was darker skinned than Malcolm (this
  "meant that his immediate family history had
  suffered the violence of rape, as had the family
  of so many African Americans.

12
The Hood

• The north promised to be the promised land which
  was far from the reality. they expected to find
  freedom, living, working, socializing. What they
  found was that they were cramped . .

13
Other Saviors

• There were other saviors--"Father Divine, Daddy
  Grace and Elder Micheaux." Malcolm X would
  become a savior for many through a life devoted
  to Elijah Muhammad.

14
He Understood

• Malcolm understood the rage and frustration of
  everyday blacks and could reach them as no others
  could.

• Malcolm became a vital part of the NOI--he was an
  effective missionary for the nation. He
  established temples in Boston, and Philadelphia.

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Action

• It was the Hinton Johnson affair that garnered
  for Malcolm for the larger black community.
  Johnson was a Black male who was severely beaten
  by the police. X assembled the FOI in front of
  the police station.

16

• Malcolm believed in telling the truth just like
  the prophets of the Bible. He needed to tell
  that truth about the Northern white liberals and
  referred to them as "shrewdly camouflaged
  racists."

17

• Malcolm was very critical of civil rights leaders
  although at first, because of the position of the
  black Muslims, in the interest of unity he did
  not name anyone of them by name.

18
The Debater

• He was a master debater. He responded to white
  questions in different ways. He would bob and
  weave as if sizing up his opponent. The civil
  rights leaders avoided debating him in public
  because of his skill.

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The Assassination
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