Malcolm X By: Meghan Lawlor, Maria Richart, Daniel Amuedo, Elle Aronson, Sydney Driscoll, and Abbi Kramer yeyeolade.wordpress.com
Malcolm X’s Childhood was born on May 19,1925, in Omaha, Nebraska got threats from people eventually his house was burned down father died in a supposed car accident mother went crazy without father, putting all of her seven children in juvenile homes turned to a life of crime with nobody to teach him right from wrong
Life in Prison read and copied words from the dictionary was interested in learning how to read and write borrowed tablets and dictionaries from the prison Bimbi inspired him to learn because he was jealous of his knowledge embraced the Black Muslim faith gatheringforces.org
Violent Protesting made speeches convincing people to support his idea of non- integration and black power felt that King had “not a dream but a nightmare and he [MLK] was too dumb to know it”. believed that violence was a good way to protect people of non-fairness examiner.com
Up to 1964 was a member and leader of Nation of Islam After visiting North Africa and the middle East, was inspired to lead peaceful protests Views change /malcolmx/malcolm_bi o.htm
Assassination preparing to make a speech tried to calm the people shot him in the chest with a shotgun had 21 gunshot wounds, ten of them from the initial shotgun assassinated February 21, 1965 buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York findagrave.com
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