Malcolm X Assassination
By Kameron
The Civil Rights Movement was
when black people did not get
treated as good as white people.
Black people had to go to a
bathroom that said Colored.
White kids got a better
education. Black people got
killed just for walking on the
wrong side of the street. Blacks
would get whipped with a whip
and shoved in a bag and get hit
with a bat. Malcolm X was an
Afro-American Muslim. Malcolm
was involved in the Civil Rights
Movement by "being one of the
most prominent and
controversial black leaders in the
Civil rights era of the 1950s and
1960s."
Early life
Malcolm X was born May 19,
1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Malcolm X was effectively
orphaned early in life. His
father was killed when he was
six and his mother was placed
in a mental hospital when he
was thirteen, after which he
lived in a series of foster
homes. In 1946, at the age of
20, Malcolm X went to jail
because of breaking and
entering. He went to jail for 6
and a half years. Malcolm X had
a wife and 6 kids
Why he's angry
When Malcolm X was growing up he
developed a mistrust for white Americans.
Ku Klux Klan terrorists burned his house,
and his father was later murdered. When
Malcolm X was in jail, he made some bad
decisions. Other inmates influenced him
to become a member of the Nation of
Islam. (Its stated goals are to improve the
spiritual, mental, social, and economic
condition of African Americans in the
United States and all of humanity). The
Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400
members at the time he was released
from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by
1960. The "fiery civil rights" leader broke
with the group shortly before his
assassination, February 21, 1965, at the
Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where
he had been preparing to deliver a speech.
Nation of Islam has repeatedly
denied any involvement in Malcolm
X's assassination. Hagan, then known
by the name Talmadge X Hayer, was
in his early 20s and a radical member
of the Nation of Islam the day he
entered the ballroom armed and
ready to kill.
Assassi
nation
I'm hot, my face is sweating as I hear the
two men in the back room arguing. I am
getting ready to deliver my speech. Then
3:00 p.m. hits. It's time. "I want to point
out first that I am very happy to be here
this evening and I'm thankful [to the
Afro-American Broadcasting Company]
for the invitation to come here to Detroit
this evening. I was in a house last night
that was bombed, my own. It didn't
destroy all my clothes, not all, but you
know what happens when fire dashes
through -- they get smoky. The only
thing I could get my hands on before
leaving was what I have on now."
Frustration is racing through
my mind, because I know that
the men were mad at me.
Something bad is going to
happen. Now the crowed is
screaming, I look behind me, a
smoke bomb!! Nobody can
see anything, then I was on
the ground bleeding. I do not
know what just happened.
End
Malcolm X assassination is
important because he was a huge
part or the civil rights movement. He
was a big part because he was a
man that helped Martin Luther King
Jr make black and whites be equal.
Malcolm X helped MLK make whites
be equal by wanting the same thing.
Malcolm X and MLK both wanted
equal rights but in different ways.
Malcolm X wanted to get equal
rights by violence and anger.
Marten Luther King wanted to get
equal rights by convensing the
government to let black people get
equal rights. People say that
Malcolm X is one of the greatest
black men of all time because he
made a lot of black people happy.
Bibliography
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
http://www.ask.com/history/malcolm-ximportant-7a74d6b6d4d3a873
http://www.biography.com/people/malcolmx-9396195
http://www.rolandsheppard.com/?
page_id=350 http://www.ushistory.org/us/
54h.asp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nation_of_Islam
http://revcom.us/a/375/the-assassination-ofmalcolm-x-important-lessons-for-todayen.html