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Black History Month: Malcolm X assassinated 46 years ago

Civil Rights Activist, Malcolm X, was assassinated 46 Years Ago today.

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Malcolm Little, better known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist.

Malcolm X assassinated 46 years ago

To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of Black Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.

But his detractors accused him of preaching racism, Black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence.

He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history, and in 1998, Time Magazine named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Malcolm X is history

After Malcolm resigned from his position in the Nation of Islam and renounced Elijah Muhammad, relations between the two had become increasingly volatile. Reportedly FBI informants working undercover in the NOI warned officials that Malcolm had been marked for assassination.

“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.”

Assassination

Malcolm X was assassinated during a rally of one of his followers in a ballroom in New York City. The men accused of his murder were believed to have connections to the Nation of Islam, though a formal tie between that group and the assassination was never proven.

 


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