Malcolm X Civil Rights Movement

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Malcolm x was a black leader and spokesman (1925-1965). By the 1960s he grown flustered with the non-violent, integrated struggles for the civil rights and worried that the blacks would lose rights to their own movement. He wanted to use more violent methods to get through to the people unlike the other spokesman of this time.

Malcolm little was born may 19, 1925 and died february 21, 1965. His family moved a lot because of racism, his father was a Baptist minister (1887-1940). As a young man malcolm little, later renamed himself malcolm x with his life in new york and boston of criminalism. He was put in prison for robbery and in the time he was in there he educated himself and changed to the muslim faith. He was becoming more active in the nation islam and a black muslim organization committed on his black uplife. He
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He urged that blacks give up the christian faith, that they shouldn’t do as the whites say. In this time he was following Eijah Muhammad, urged people not to follow the elections. In 1957 malcolm x met a young student nurs, Betty Jean Sanders (1936-1997). She became a member of the black muslim, her and malcolm married in 1958 and later had kids together. The black muslim was finally getting the public spotlight, but malcolm was claiming that the blacks were the better race than all the rest.
While the movement was reaching the peak, some people wanted to get malcolm x out of the office, they felt like he wanted to take leadership from Eijah Muhammad. On December 1, 1963, malcolm saw J.F.K killed and said “its the chickens coming home to roost”. Eijah told malcolm that he cant peak for the nation for 90 days. On March 8, 1964, he told the public he was leaving the nation of islam and making his own however i remained a believer of the islamic