Malcolm X (may 19, 1925 – feb 21, 1965)

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Malcolm X was a minister, human rights activist and outstanding black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the Nineteen Fifties and 1960s. Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere four hundred members on the time he was launched from jail in 1952 to 40,000 members by using 1960. A naturally gifted orator, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to eliminate the shackles of racism "by any approach necessary," along with violence. The fiery civil rights leader broke with the Nation of Islam shortly before his assassination in 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been getting ready to deliver a speech. Malcolm X turned into born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the fourth of eight kids born to Louise, a homemaker, and Earl Little, a preacher who became additionally an active member of the neighborhood bankruptcy of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and avid supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Due to Earl Little's civil rights activism, the family turned into subjected to common harassment from white supremacist businesses along with the Ku Klux Klan and one among its splinter factions, the Black Legion. In fact, Malcolm Little had his first encounter with racism before he turned into even

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