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Jul 12, 2017 · Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who confronted a government that was historically unjust. Exactly one week prior to his assassination, we had been terrorized by a firebomb thrown into the ...
Today we honor Betty Shabazz (1934-1997), educator, civil rights advocate, and wife of Malcom X. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Years later she moved to New York City and became a nurse. It was there, in New York City, that she met Malcom X and married.
Jun 24, 1997 · Betty Shabazz, the widow of Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, died Monday in a Bronx hospital after struggling for more than three weeks to overcome massive burns from a fire that prosecutors say was ...
Betty Shabazz died in 1997 and continues to be one of the most prominent Black women ever affiliated with the Nation of Islam whose faith and activism helped to spur social change. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE GUIDE. Betty Shabazz has had a powerful voice since her early years of life. Read on about how she continued her education and the organizations ...
Jul 10, 2007 · The first time I met Betty Shabazz I was, frankly, in open-mouthed awe of her. I sort of buzzed around her, hovered in her orbit, but didn’t say a word. She had been married to Malcolm X, I told myself. And after his assassination, she raised six daughters by herself. She earned a Ph.D. as an adult, and was running a major department at Medgar Evers College. The woman must be awesome, I told ...
Feb 27, 2018 · Ilyasah Al Shabazz. Ilyasah Al Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, is an educator, activist, motivational speaker and the author of "Growing Up X" (Random House 2002 ...
Jan 1, 2003 · This is a wonderful biography of Betty Shabazz, very helpful in better understanding the years that followed Malcolm X's death in 1965, and what was made of his legacy. Shabazz's story is extremely powerful and very well told.
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