Separated by centuries, and driven by entirely different circumstances Malcolm X (Little) and Samuel Adams were two men who made overwhelming changes in, not only their communities, but all over the world. Although X and Adams made exceptionally different contributions to society, and lived in two time periods that were unbelievably different, their characteristics of leadership, determination and strength make them quite similar.

On the nineteenth day of May in 1925, Malcolm Little was born to parents Earl and Louise Little, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the second youngest, of five children, and his father was a Baptist preacher from Georgia. By the time Malcolm was six years old, his family had moved from Nebraska to Wisconsin, to Lansing, Michigan. On September 28, 1931 Earl Little (Malcolm's father) was run over and killed by a streetcar, believed to have been driven by a member of a white supremacist group. In 1939 Louise Little, Malcolm's mother, was declared mentally insane and committed to a mental hospital where she remained for twenty-six years. In 1940 Malcolm was placed into various foster homes, until 1941 when he moved to Boston to live with his paternal

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When Malcolm was finally paroled, he began to study NOI as well as attending NOI meetings. Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam, and shortly after he joined the NOI, he changed his last name to "X", which stood for the unknown African name of his slave ancestors. He eventually became the first minister of the Boston Temple #11, and the minister of many other Temples in other states. In the 1960's Malcolm X reached his greatest level of leadership. He became a radical leader for the rights of African Americans all over the world, and unlike the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm believed in getting what black people deserved "by any means necessary."

In 1746 Sam Adams won his first political office when he was elected one of the clerks of the Boston market. In 1748 Deacon Adams past away and Sam fell upon some difficult years, and he didn't hold an office in Boston until 1753, when he was elected a town scavenger.

When his business failed in 1764 Adams entered politics full-time, and was elected to the Massachusetts legislature. He lead the effort to establish a committee of correspondence that published a Declaration of Colonial Rights that Adams had written. He was a vocal opponent of several laws passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies, including the Tea Act, which gave a British trading company a monopoly on the import of tea into the colonies. In early 1764 Samuel Adams raised the cry of "no taxation without representation." This opposition reached its peak on December 16, 1773 when a group of Bostonians dumped a British cargo of tea into Boston Harbor, known as the Boston Tea Party.

Over time, Malcolm's relationship with Elijah Muhammad was deteriorating rapidly. It got so bad that Malcolm was kicked out of the Nation of Islam, and was asked to return all of his possessions back to the NOI. Following all of this, Malcolm formed his own organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. After forming this group, Malcolm adopted another name and this name was El-Hajj Malik El-Shabbazz. In 1965 Malcolm was fatally shot while giving a speech in New York, after he had criticized Elijah Muhammad. Three people that turned out to be from the Nation of Islam shot Malcolm. All three of them were convicted and sent to prison.

After living with his sister for a year, Malcolm went off on his own working wherever he could find job openings, from ballrooms to restaurants. In 1943 Malcolm registered for the U.S. Army, but they found him mentally

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