The incredible story of Malcolm X

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Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 - FEBRUARY 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz1 is a Muslim African American preacher, speaker and activist rights. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for African American rights have indicted the United States for his crimes and racial segregation of the black community. However, his critics accuse him of preaching racism, black supremacist and violence.

Malcolm Little was the son of Earl Little and Louise Little (née Louisa Norton). He lived a short time in 1909 Pinkney Street in North Omaha neighborhoods. Malcolm's father is a Baptist preacher convinced fervent supporter of Marcus Garvey and carpenter. This then calls for the return of African-Americans in Africa (Liberia), refusing integration into American society, which has largely characterized the political views of Malcolm on this subject. Earl Little is also a member of the World Association for improving the condition of black (Universal Negro Improvement Association, UNIA). Malcolm, in his Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, described his father as an imposing black man blind (but wearing a glass eye). Four uncles were killed by whites, including a lynched.

Earl Little, was born in Georgia, already had three children (Ella, Mary, and Earl Jr.) a first bed. From his marriage with Louise Norton, he had seven children, Malcolm was the fourth. Their names were, in order of birth: Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert, Malcolm, Reginald, Yvonne, and Wesley.

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[...] ] almost reduced to the level of beasts. [ . ] jumping from tree. Monkeys in conduct. [ . ] Before them, there was nothing like monkeys and pigs The end of his incarceration, after conversion to the Nation of Islam Until the end of his incarceration, Malcolm regularly corresponds with Elijah Poole, says Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the 'Nation'. According to his autobiography, Malcolm begins to be famous among the prisoners, while it remains under the watchful eye of the authorities who recognize him as a potential source of trouble. [...]

[...] She married Earl Little, among others, because he had very dark complexion. She hated her fair complexion, her white blood and wanted more black children. His grandfather was a white man whose Malcolm knew nothing, except what he described as "the shame of my mother." It was from him that Malcolm had his relatively fair complexion. At first he thought, being mixed was a chance, a "status symbol". Later, he said he "hated every drop of that blood rapist" in him. [...]

[...] In early 1946 he returned to Boston. When he was arrested Jan for trying to steal a watch again nearly a thousand U.S. dollars he had left in a jeweler for repair. Two days later, he was also prosecuted for carrying a weapon. On 16 January, he must face the flight loads characterized and forced entry. He was sentenced to ten years in prison (he did make that seven) in the state prison in Massachusetts to Charleston, where he arrived on 27 February. [...]

[...] 7 August 1952, Malcolm was finally paroled. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam Shortly after his release, Malcolm Little meet Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, which marked its full integration with the Nation of Islam. Fairly quickly, he changed his surname to Malcolm explained that this name was the rejection of his "slave name" in the absence of a real African name. In the slave America before 1863, the master required his slaves to take his name to the "mark" as her things, hence the rejection. [...]

[...] The "Nation of Islam" is the time a small organization of a few hundred members, based in Chicago. The organization marked by three main themes ideology: a very unorthodox form of Islam, a strong black nationalism (claim of a State for blacks in the southern United States) and a total rejection of whites considered the incarnation of the devil on earth (the following quote from one of its leaders, Elijah Muhammad, illustrates this thought: "We saw the white race (devils) in the sky, among the righteous, causing disorders [ . until they were discovered. [ . [...]