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'''Malcolm X''' or '''Malcolm Little''' was born  in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]] on the 19th of May in 1925. Malcolm was the son of a minister who was a rapid supporter of the universal improvement of the black person and [[Marcus Garvey]].
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'''Malcolm X''' was the son of a minister who was a strong supporter of the universal improvement of the black person and a supporter of [[Marcus Garvey]].  Malcolm himself was a prominent member of the [[Nation of Islam]] before breaking with the group, and was a victim of assassination.
  
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While he lived in Omaha, the family vacationed often - to a point that the house of the family has been destroyed by a fire. In 1929 the family moved to [[Lansing]], [[Michigan]]. While in Michigan, the father of the Malcolm was killed; his body was divided in two from a streetcar and his head was broken. In his autobiography, written with Alex Haley, Malcolm has alleged that his father was killed from the members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. His mother was engaged in a mental institution. Leaving the school after the eighth grade, Malcolm made his way to [[New York City]], working for a small time as a waiter in [[Harlem]].
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==Early life==
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'''Malcolm Little''' was born in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]] on the 19th of May in 1925.
  
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Malcolm began to sell and use [[drugs]], turned to [[burglary]] and, in 1946, was sentenced to a term of ten years of prison on charges of burglary. While in [[prison]] he was converted to the black section of the [[Muslim]]s, as directed by [[Elijah Muhammad]] and quickly learned the [[Koran]].
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In 1929 the family moved to [[Lansing]], [[Michigan]]. While in Michigan, Malcolm's father was killed; his body was divided in two from a [[tram|streetcar]] and his head was broken. In his autobiography, written with Alex Haley, Malcolm has alleged that his father was killed by members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. His mother was engaged in a mental institution. Leaving the school after the eighth grade, Malcolm made his way to [[New York City]], working for a short time as a waiter in [[Harlem]].
  
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To continue his life in 1952, soon he became a frank protector of the Muslim doctrines, acceptor the base argument that the malevolence was one characteristic inherent of the [[Christian]] world "of the white man." Aware of [[Muhammad]], Malcolm has tried using publicity, rendering provocative statements and making declarations and inflammatory appeals to the civic groups (mainly white men and the public university campus).
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Malcolm did not fight in [[World War II]] as he didn’t appear when drafted. Later on, he acted mentally incompetent to get out of penalties for not appearing when drafted. Malcolm began to sell and use [[drugs]], turned to [[burglary]] and, in 1946, was sentenced to a term of ten years of prison on charges of burglary. While in [[prison]] he was converted to the [[Nation of Islam]], changed his name, and quickly learned the [[Koran]]; as directed by [[Elijah Muhammad]].
  
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When, in 1963, he characterized the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] a case "of the chicken that came to the house to roost," he was suspended from the black Muslim movement and from Elijah Muhammad. Disillusioned with the instructions of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm formed his own organizations, the organization of Afro-Americans and the Muslim Mosque. In 1964 he has made a pilgrimage the holy city of [[Islam]], [[Mecca]] and adopted the name ''Shabazz de Malik de El-Hajj''.
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==Nation of Islam==
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To continue his life in 1952, soon he became a frank protector of the Nation of Islam doctrines, accepting their foundational argument that malevolence was one characteristic inherent of the [[Christian]] world "of the white man."
  
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Moreover he adopted views that were not popular with other black nationalists, comprised of the idea that all the white men were not diabolic and that the black ones could make their gains working through established avenues. There were new consequences seen of the actions of Malcolm, as he has become the victim of the threats on his family.
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In 1960 Malcolm visited with Castro.  When, in 1963, he characterized the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] as a case "of the chicken that came home to roost," he was suspended from the black Muslim movement. Disillusioned with the instructions of Elijah Muhammad, as well as Muhammad's personal adulteries, Malcolm formed his own organization, the organization of Afro-Americans and the Muslim Mosque. In 1964 he made a pilgrimage to the holy city of [[Islam]], [[Mecca]] and adopted the name ''El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz'' as he converted to regular Islam.
  
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In February of 1965, his center had been firebombed; with the women and children unharmed. A week afterwards, Malcolm's life had been threatened and he was told that he would be killed in the ballroom of the Audubon in Harlem. Three of the men subsequently arrested have been identified as being members of the [[Nation of Islam]].
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==Exile==
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Moreover, he adopted views that were not popular with some black nationalists, comprised of the idea that not all white men were  diabolic and that the black men could make their gains working through established avenues.
  
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Many blacks have answered to questions of his sensibility that he was a man of people, with experience in the way of the people rather than the university, city, or administration of the university. The memory and the image of Malcolm X has changed as well as after his death much as his own philosophies changed during his life. First thought to be a fanatic violent man, time has helped us understand he was also a supporter of self-help, self-defense and formation; like a philosopher and pedagogue, he is a major figure in black history, with both religion and mythology integrated in order to establish one structure for his fight against human injustice in the world.
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==Views==
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Malcolm X described his political views this way: {{quotebox|"The white Liberal differs from the white Conservative only in one way; the Liberal is more [[deceit]]ful, more hypocritical, than the Conservative. Both want power, but the White Liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the White Liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game, that is constantly raging, between the White Liberals and the White Conservatives. The American Negro is nothing, but a political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YmjWW9tx4</ref>}}
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[[File:Malcolm X and Ahmad Shukeiri.PNG|thumb|pro Nazi Shukeiri brainwashed Malcolm X (Sep/1964)]]
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[[File:Malcolm X Deluxe.PNG|thumb| How Malcolm X changed his view after meeting Shukeiri Sep/1964]]
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Pro-Hitler <font size=1>(who cheered for the Axis in 1939-40,<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=pJkH06fTLD8C&pg=PA189</ref> allied with [[Hitler]] since Russia went into the war in 1941,<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=SxuiouvRuwkC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Out%20for%20hitler%22&f=false</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=0nacFQ7dBJIC&pg=SL1-PA525</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=3Yah_o9r5V4C&pg=SL1-PA456</ref><ref>https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9</ref> in 1946 has justified the Holocaust of 6,000,000 Jews,<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TgFPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jEwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2751,1591402</ref><ref>https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1946.07.12.001/2</ref> and endorsed Neo Nazi strontroopers in Nov.30.62, <ref>https://www.jta.org/1962/12/03/archive/recall-of-arab-delegate-from-u-n-is-sought-saluted-tacuara</ref><ref>https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1962.12.07.001/1</ref> knowing full well their Nazism, as he mentioned<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=n9c3AQAAIAAJ&q=shukairy+apartheid</ref> the Sep-16-1962 NYT article <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html</ref> where it explicit states so.)</font> [[Ahmad Shukeiri]] influenced Malcolm X into buying "Palestinian" based bigotry (Sep/1964).<ref>Marable, Manning. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RownbjVryWIC&pg=PT457 Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention]. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.<blockquote>
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In early September Malcolm took a two-day trip to Gaza, meeting a number of local government officials and visiting several Palestinian refugee camps near the Israeli border.
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He prayed at a local masjid, accompanied by several religious leaders, before holding a press conference in Gaza's parliament building. The Nation had admired the state of Israel as a concrete expression of Jewish Zionism; henceforth Malcolm would view Israel as a neocolonial proxy for U.S. imperialism.
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Malcolm also attended a press conference featuring Ahmed al-Shukairy, the first president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. After the conference, the two men met privately. This meeting became the context for Malcolm's controversial essay in the Egyptian Gazette, "Zionist Logic," in which he denounced Israeli Zionism as a "new form of colonialism," designed to "deceive the African masses into submitting willingly into their divine' authority and guidance."</blockquote></ref>
  
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Malcolm's faith, from a point of view, was a prelude to his action; the ideas were feckless without politics. At least three books have published since his death, effectively introducing the world to his thoughts. In 1992, a monumental film from [[Spike Lee]] based on his autobiography renewed interest and understanding in the life and death of Malcolm X.
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==Assassination==
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In February 1965, his center was firebombed. A week afterwards, Malcolm's life was threatened and he was told that he would be killed in the ballroom of the Audubon in Harlem. He was assassinated while giving a speech on February 21, 1965; he was shot 16 times by a number of men who rushed the stage. Three of the men subsequently arrested have been identified as being members of the [[Nation of Islam]].
  
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In 2021, on the anniversary of his death, Malcolm X's family used a "deathbed letter" from a retired NYPD officer to implicate the NYPD and [[FBI]] in his murder. In the letter, the retired officer allegedly "confessed" to luring two security guards to commit crimes so they would be arrested and prevented from guarding the Audubon the day of Malcolm X's murder.<ref>https://www.oann.com/civil-rights-attorneys-submit-letter-to-manhattan-da-claiming-nypd-fbi-conspired-in-malcolm-x-assassination/</ref>
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On 17 November, 2001, District Attorney [[Cyrus Vance, Jr.]] announced that two men convicted for the crime,  Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, would have those convictions vacated. <ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/17/malcolm-x-2-men-cleared-civil-rights-leaders-1965-killing/8653852002/</ref>
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==Legacy==
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The memory and the image of Malcolm X have changed since his death, just as much of his own philosophies changed during his life. First thought to be a fanatic violent man, time has helped us understand he was also a supporter of self-help, self-defense and formation; like a philosopher and pedagogue, he is a major figure in [[black history]], with both religion and mythology integrated in order to establish one structure for his fight against human injustice in the world.
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Malcolm's faith, from a point of view, was a prelude to his action; the ideas were feckless without politics. At least three books have published since his death, effectively introducing the world to his thoughts. In 1992, a controversial film from [[Spike Lee]] based on his autobiography renewed interest and understanding in the life and death of Malcolm X.
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==Quotes==
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* "The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power."<ref>[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=tjfZmy3vBtAC&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality]</ref>
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* "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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* "I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defense; I call it intelligence."
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* "I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."
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* "The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man."<ref>https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/2019/01/02/malcolm-x-our-problems-will-never-be-solved-by-the-white-man/</ref>
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== See also ==
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*[[Black Americans, history and religion]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Nation of Islam]]
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[[Category:Muslims]]
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[[Category:Children of Clergy]]
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[[Category:Former Christians]]
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[[Category:Black Nationalists]]
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[[Category:Anti-Zionism]]

Latest revision as of 22:09, January 1, 2024

Malcolm X

Malcolm X was the son of a minister who was a strong supporter of the universal improvement of the black person and a supporter of Marcus Garvey. Malcolm himself was a prominent member of the Nation of Islam before breaking with the group, and was a victim of assassination.

Early life

Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska on the 19th of May in 1925.

In 1929 the family moved to Lansing, Michigan. While in Michigan, Malcolm's father was killed; his body was divided in two from a streetcar and his head was broken. In his autobiography, written with Alex Haley, Malcolm has alleged that his father was killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. His mother was engaged in a mental institution. Leaving the school after the eighth grade, Malcolm made his way to New York City, working for a short time as a waiter in Harlem.

Malcolm did not fight in World War II as he didn’t appear when drafted. Later on, he acted mentally incompetent to get out of penalties for not appearing when drafted. Malcolm began to sell and use drugs, turned to burglary and, in 1946, was sentenced to a term of ten years of prison on charges of burglary. While in prison he was converted to the Nation of Islam, changed his name, and quickly learned the Koran; as directed by Elijah Muhammad.

Nation of Islam

To continue his life in 1952, soon he became a frank protector of the Nation of Islam doctrines, accepting their foundational argument that malevolence was one characteristic inherent of the Christian world "of the white man."

In 1960 Malcolm visited with Castro. When, in 1963, he characterized the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a case "of the chicken that came home to roost," he was suspended from the black Muslim movement. Disillusioned with the instructions of Elijah Muhammad, as well as Muhammad's personal adulteries, Malcolm formed his own organization, the organization of Afro-Americans and the Muslim Mosque. In 1964 he made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Islam, Mecca and adopted the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz as he converted to regular Islam.

Exile

Moreover, he adopted views that were not popular with some black nationalists, comprised of the idea that not all white men were diabolic and that the black men could make their gains working through established avenues.

Views

Malcolm X described his political views this way:
"The white Liberal differs from the white Conservative only in one way; the Liberal is more deceitful, more hypocritical, than the Conservative. Both want power, but the White Liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the White Liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game, that is constantly raging, between the White Liberals and the White Conservatives. The American Negro is nothing, but a political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.[1]
pro Nazi Shukeiri brainwashed Malcolm X (Sep/1964)
How Malcolm X changed his view after meeting Shukeiri Sep/1964

Pro-Hitler (who cheered for the Axis in 1939-40,[2] allied with Hitler since Russia went into the war in 1941,[3][4][5][6] in 1946 has justified the Holocaust of 6,000,000 Jews,[7][8] and endorsed Neo Nazi strontroopers in Nov.30.62, [9][10] knowing full well their Nazism, as he mentioned[11] the Sep-16-1962 NYT article [12] where it explicit states so.) Ahmad Shukeiri influenced Malcolm X into buying "Palestinian" based bigotry (Sep/1964).[13]

Assassination

In February 1965, his center was firebombed. A week afterwards, Malcolm's life was threatened and he was told that he would be killed in the ballroom of the Audubon in Harlem. He was assassinated while giving a speech on February 21, 1965; he was shot 16 times by a number of men who rushed the stage. Three of the men subsequently arrested have been identified as being members of the Nation of Islam.

In 2021, on the anniversary of his death, Malcolm X's family used a "deathbed letter" from a retired NYPD officer to implicate the NYPD and FBI in his murder. In the letter, the retired officer allegedly "confessed" to luring two security guards to commit crimes so they would be arrested and prevented from guarding the Audubon the day of Malcolm X's murder.[14]

On 17 November, 2001, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. announced that two men convicted for the crime, Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, would have those convictions vacated. [15]

Legacy

The memory and the image of Malcolm X have changed since his death, just as much of his own philosophies changed during his life. First thought to be a fanatic violent man, time has helped us understand he was also a supporter of self-help, self-defense and formation; like a philosopher and pedagogue, he is a major figure in black history, with both religion and mythology integrated in order to establish one structure for his fight against human injustice in the world.

Malcolm's faith, from a point of view, was a prelude to his action; the ideas were feckless without politics. At least three books have published since his death, effectively introducing the world to his thoughts. In 1992, a controversial film from Spike Lee based on his autobiography renewed interest and understanding in the life and death of Malcolm X.

Quotes

  • "The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power."[16]
  • "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
  • "I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defense; I call it intelligence."
  • "I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."
  • "The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man."[17]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YmjWW9tx4
  2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=pJkH06fTLD8C&pg=PA189
  3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=SxuiouvRuwkC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Out%20for%20hitler%22&f=false
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=0nacFQ7dBJIC&pg=SL1-PA525
  5. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=3Yah_o9r5V4C&pg=SL1-PA456
  6. ↑ https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9
  7. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TgFPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jEwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2751,1591402
  8. ↑ https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1946.07.12.001/2
  9. ↑ https://www.jta.org/1962/12/03/archive/recall-of-arab-delegate-from-u-n-is-sought-saluted-tacuara
  10. ↑ https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1962.12.07.001/1
  11. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=n9c3AQAAIAAJ&q=shukairy+apartheid
  12. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html
  13. ↑ Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.

    In early September Malcolm took a two-day trip to Gaza, meeting a number of local government officials and visiting several Palestinian refugee camps near the Israeli border. He prayed at a local masjid, accompanied by several religious leaders, before holding a press conference in Gaza's parliament building. The Nation had admired the state of Israel as a concrete expression of Jewish Zionism; henceforth Malcolm would view Israel as a neocolonial proxy for U.S. imperialism.

    Malcolm also attended a press conference featuring Ahmed al-Shukairy, the first president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. After the conference, the two men met privately. This meeting became the context for Malcolm's controversial essay in the Egyptian Gazette, "Zionist Logic," in which he denounced Israeli Zionism as a "new form of colonialism," designed to "deceive the African masses into submitting willingly into their divine' authority and guidance."
  14. ↑ https://www.oann.com/civil-rights-attorneys-submit-letter-to-manhattan-da-claiming-nypd-fbi-conspired-in-malcolm-x-assassination/
  15. ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/17/malcolm-x-2-men-cleared-civil-rights-leaders-1965-killing/8653852002/
  16. ↑ The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality
  17. ↑ https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/2019/01/02/malcolm-x-our-problems-will-never-be-solved-by-the-white-man/
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