that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non-violent protests"

weren't working and that violence was needed for change.

Malcolm X's life was a life with a lot of conflict and violence in it. Malcolm X was born under the name of Malcolm

Little in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925. His father was a baptist minister and an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey,

the black nationalist leader of the 1920s who preached that all blacks should leave the US and go back to Africa.

While Malcolm's father was away and Malcolm's mother was pregnant with Malcolm, a group of KKK members

came to their house and told Mrs. Little to send out her husband. She came out of the house and stood where all the

KKK could see that she was pregnant and told them that Mr. Little was in Milwaukee preaching. The KKK,

disappointed, shouted threats and told them to leave town. After this they broke every window in the Little's home

and left. When Mr. Little came ho

logic is that if the white men were evil, why would they try to join them and help them? Although I disagree with

When Malcolm was released from prison after in 1952, he joined a temple in Detroit, and took the name Malcolm X.

for Elijah Muhammad if he had to. Over the course of the next few months, Malcolm's eye's were finally opened to

across the WORLD, but also put Malcolm X in an awkward position since he received a lot of publicity. Because of

homeland in the U.S. and believed that the white person is "the Devil" who wanted to enslave all non-whites. The

He took the name X because his present last name was the last name of the slave master who freed their slave and

Malcolm was later enrolled in a reform school and did very well grade wise. He was the best student in his class and

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