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Name: Malcolm Little Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska Date of Birth: May 19, 1925 Job Name/Title/Employer: Civil Rights Activist / NOI Minister Education: West Junior High in Lansing Michigan

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My name is Malcolm Little, I was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. My mother, Loiuse, took care of her eight children while my father, Earl, went to preach about Marcus Garvey. Mr. Garvey was the leader of the Black Nationalists movement, which my father supported.

"On September 28, 1939, I was awoken in the middle of the night by loud screaming. It wasn't the house being burnt down or an angry mob looking for trouble. I saw police trying to calm my mother down. They took her to Sparrow Hospital where my father lay dead. The train conductor, who found his body, told us that he was left near a trolley tavk that ran through Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan. My mother thought it was a group of white men who killed him because they didn't like what he preached about. I will never forget the night my father was murdered." -Malcolm X

My mother suffered an emotional breakdown several years after the death of my father Earl. She later was sent to a mental insitution and our family of nine was split up. My brothers and sisters were now among the caretakers of various foster homes and orphanages.I grew up to graduate at the top of my class. I later dropped out and moved back to Boston with my best friend, Malcolm 'Shorty" Jarvis. When I traveled back to Boston I was accused and arrested of burglary charges. I was sent to 10years of prison. I recalled my time in school and furthered it during my years in prison. I studied the Muslim religiom with my brother whne he would visit me. That's when I was intrigued with leader Elijah Muhammad. I learned many things from him and decided to change my last night because to me "Little" was a slave name and to signify my lost tribal namr I took up the name "X".

I later showed my intelligence when I was appointed as a minister/spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI). I later spread to the world my beliefs through media, which was when I had gathered many followers. Racial tensions got increasingly high in the 60's and my personality had captured the eyes of the governemnt. I continued preaching about the tteachers of Muhammad when I later married my beautiful wife, Betty Sabazz, in 1958. That's when it all changed. i had been appointed by Muhammad himself to help him cover up the affairs and subsequent children. I can still remember the deception I felt.

I was criticized by many and soon terminated my relationship with the NOI. I had an idea though, to make my own religious organizatin. I named it the Muslim Mosque. I traveled to Mecca where I spoke my thoughts with different cultures. I found responses to be overwhelmingly positive and it inspired me. I came home to America with a new message, a message for all races. I spoke my thoughts about everything I had ever known. When I renounced Elijah Muhammad, relations between me and the NOI were volatile. I was later marked to be assassinated. I never went without bodygaurds since then.

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-Malcolm X __Comments:35__ __Likes:47__
 * "Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nation of this earth."

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 * "It's like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It use to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."

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 * I was announced a minister for the Nation of Islam on June 18 -- with Elijah Muhammad.

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 * Going all over the world to preach about my new organization Muslim Mosque ---with my bodygaurds.

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