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The post Why Malcolm X said white people should be like abolitionist John Brown appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: To commemorate the civil rights leader's birthday, we looked back at what ...
Malcolm X taught that Black people were the original people of the world, [101] and that Whites were a race of devils who were created by an evil scientist named Yakub. [102] The Nation of Islam believed that Black people were superior to White people and that the demise of the White race was imminent. [103]
"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 ...
Finally, Malcolm X spoke about the March on Washington, which had taken place on August 28, 1963. He said the impetus behind the march was the masses of African Americans, who were angry and threatening to march on the White House and the Capitol. Malcolm X said there were threats to disrupt traffic on the streets of Washington and at its airport.
In 1964, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and made his hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Malcolm X continued to speak out against injustice until his death on Feb. 21, 1965.
The civil rights activist had six children: Attallah, Qubilah, Ilyasah, Gamilah, Malikah and Malaak Malcolm X's 6 Children: All About His Daughters Who Are Continuing His Legacy Skip to main content
Major figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks [14] were involved in the fight against the race-based discrimination of the Civil Rights Movement. . Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott—a large movement in Montgomery, Alabama, that was an integral period at the beginning of the Civil Rights Moveme
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met just once, a moment depicted in the series 'Genius: MLK/X' ... Segregationists in the U.S. Senate were filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the ...