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MALCOM X

MALCOM X. Elijah Redding. Malcom x’s background. Malcolm X was a African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. He was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans,

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MALCOM X

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  1. MALCOM X Elijah Redding

  2. Malcom x’s background • Malcolm X was a African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. • He was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, • He was a man who indicted in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. • Living in Harlem, he became involved in drug dealing, gambling, racketeering, robbery, and steering prostitutes.

  3. Young adult years • In Boston, Little held a variety of jobs and found intermittent employment with the New Have Railroad. Between 1943 and 1946, he drifted from city to city and job to job. • He left Boston to live for a short time in Flint, Michigan. He moved to New York City in 1943

  4. Nation of Islam In 1952, after his release from prison, Little visited Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Illinois. Then, like many members of the Nation of Islam, he changed his surname to "X". In his autobiography, Malcolm X explained the "X": "The Muslim's 'X' symbolized the true African family name that he never could know.

  5. His Message • Malcolm X’s speech was given October 13th, 1963. Malcom was trying to say that the blacks needed to be more assertive. • They needed to stop letting the white man stomp all over them.

  6. Work Cites • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X • http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Malcolm_X's_message_to_the_grass_roots

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