n he told the teacher that he wanted to be a lawyer. To Malcolm's surprise, the teacher didn't encourage him , but told him to be realistic about being a "nigger."3 Malcolm only stayed in Michigan to finish eighth grade.4 Malcolm moved to Roxbury to live with his sister Ella.5 After living with her for some time, Malcolm moved to Harlem to live on his own.6 While there Malcolm turned to selling drugs and living a life of crime.7 While back in Boston, he was arrested for robbery.8 He was sentenced to five to ten years in prison.9 As it ended up, prison turned Malcolm's life fight around. Malcolm began to read and educated himself while in prison.10 His brothers wrote to him about a religion for the black man. They told him to stop smoking and eating pork.11 His brother Reginald visited him and introduced him to Islam, he told Malcolm that the white man was the devil.12 The leader of this religion, officially called the "Nation of Islam" was Elijah Muhammad.13 He began preaching in Detroit after getting out of prison, and he was becoming more important in the religion.14 He changed his last name from Little to X.15 The symbol X has a double meaning. It means "ex" because the Muslim is no longer what he was and it stands for the unknown original last name. of the Muslim.16 After setting up a temple in Boston,17 he was asked to do the same in Harlem.18 He was becoming an important figure in the religion. When Malcolm joined the "Nation of Islam" or the "Black Muslims" as the members were commonly called, he adopted all their ideas and beliefs. Malcolm became the articulate spokesman for the Muslims.19 Up until the late 1940's, the movement was making very slow progress. When Malcolm came into the picture, the movement began to "catch fire."20 The Nation of Islam was an unique religion indeed. The Black Muslims rejected the word "Negro" because it was to them by the whites.21 Its members rejected Christianity, because it failed to give the black man justice.22 Orthodox Muslims in America rejected the principles of the Nation of Islam.23 The Black Muslims demanded racial separation of blacks and whites.24 They thought, as Malcolm did, that all personal relationships between blacks and whites must be broken immediately. Economic and political ties would be broken later.25 As C. Eric Lincoln put it in his book The Black Muslims in America, the Muslims rejected racial intermarriage "as sternly as any southern white."26 They were convinced of their superior racial heritage. Malcolm emphasized the fact that integration was bad for both sides. He said it would destroy the white race, and it would also destroy the black race.27 "The only thing I like integrated is my coffee."28 Malcolm stressed that integration with whites wasn't only undesirable but impossible.29 He told the public bluntly that without great bloodshed, integration wasn't going to happen.30 In his autobiography Malcolm says that he wasn't referring to the white man as an individual, when he called whites the devil, but to the white man's historical record collectively.31 But it seemed clear when Malcolm was with the Nation of Islam that he was talking about all whites, there were no exceptions.32 Malcolm believed that the masses of black people didn't desire integration, only the "so-called Negro leaders" wanted it.33 The Black Muslims believed that they had the right to land in America for their separation of races. They believed they had the right to land for two reasons. First, whites stole the land from the Indians, and they are brothers of black people. And secondly, blacks worked 300 years as absolute slaves and 100 years as free slaves, thus earning the right to land in America.34 Although not much was said about it was clear for the Muslims that if it became necessary, blacks must take up in arms to gain "an eye for an eye."35 The Muslims and Malcolm never actually advocated aggressive armed violence but they made the point clear that violence was acceptable as a m

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