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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
"The Ballot or the Bullet" is the title of a public speech by human rights activist Malcolm X.In the speech, which was delivered on two occasions the first being April 3, 1964, at the Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, [1] and the second being on April 12, 1964, at the King Solomon Baptist Church, in Detroit, Michigan, [2] Malcolm X advised African Americans to judiciously exercise ...
1964 photograph of Malcolm X. In 1965, Malcolm X expressed reservations about Black nationalism, saying, "I was alienating people who were true revolutionaries dedicated to overturning the system of exploitation that exists on this earth by any means necessary. So I had to do a lot of thinking and reappraising of my definition of black nationalism.
The AAL was influenced by the ideas of Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. The Australian "black power movement" had emerged in Redfern in Sydney, Fitzroy, Melbourne, and South Brisbane, following the "Freedom Ride" led by Charles Perkins in 1965. There was a small group of people at the centre of the movement known as the Black Caucus. [56]
Conceptual breakdown of black separatism. In his discussion of black nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the historian Wilson Jeremiah Moses observes that "black separatism, or self-containment, which in its extreme form advocated the perpetual physical separation of the races, usually referred only to a simple institutional separatism, or the desire to see black ...
With the Metropolitan Opera's production of "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X," a cultural institution attempts to make sense of a true rebel.
Malcolm X: Make It Plain is a 1994, English language documentary by PBS about the life of Malcolm X, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The documentary was narrated by Alfre Woodard , produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell , written by Steve Fayer and Orlando Bagwell and co-produced by Judy Richardson .
Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 when gunmen opened fire while he gave a speech in New York. A new lawsuit accuses the government of conspiracy.