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Dr. Shabazz participated on various United States delegations with Presidents Ford, Carter, and Clinton. She also participated in the Women’s International Conference in Bejing, China, and continued to travel internationally in the cause of social justice. She was an outspoken advocate for human rights, women’s rights, racial tolerance, and ...
Nov 23, 2021 · Ms. Shabazz’s death was the latest in a series of tragedies to befall the family, whose matriarch, Betty Shabazz, died from injuries sustained in a fire at her home in Yonkers in 1997. She was 61.
Jan 6, 2021 · Betty Shabazz (second from right) leaves the morgue at Bellevue Hospital in New York after identifying the body of her husband, Malcolm X, February 22, 1965; Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images.
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
