feb 21, 1965 - Malcolm X
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Born Malcolm Little in Omaha on May, World-renowned black nationalist leader was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on the first day of National Brotherhood Week. Revolutionary black freedom fighter, civil rights activist and for a time the national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, he famously spoke of the need for black freedom "by any means necessary."Added to timeline:
Date:
feb 21, 1965
Now
~ 60 years ago