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Feb 21, 2018 · Black Muslim leader and civil rights activist, Malcolm X, was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965. He was shot at close range 15 times by three members of the Nation of Islam.
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- Malcolm X's Early Experiences with Racism
- Joining The Nation of Islam
- Splitting with The Nation of Islam
- Malcolm X Charts His Own Path
- The Assassination of Malcolm X
- The Aftermath of Malcolm X's Death — and Who Killed Him
- Theories Surrounding Who Murdered Malcolm X and Why
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up with six siblings in a household brimming with Black pride. His parents were active supporters of Marcus Garvey, who advocated for the separation of Black and white communities so that the former could build their own economic and political systems. Malcolm's f...
Malcolm's first brush with the Nation of Islam (NOI) was when his brothers, Reginald and Wilfred, told him about it while he was in prison. Malcolm was skeptical at first — as he was of all religions. The religion preached that Blacks were innately superior and that whites were the devil. When Reginald visited Malcolm in prison to convince him to j...
Starting in 1962, Malcolm X's relationship with the Nation of Islam became rocky. Malcolm was shocked at Elijah Muhammad's unwillingness to take violent action against the Los Angeles Police after police officers shot and killed members of an NOI temple during a raid in April of 1962. Soon after, Malcolm discovered that Muhummad had been having ext...
After severing his ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X maintained his Muslim faith and founded his own small Islamic organization, Muslim Mosque, Inc. In April of 1964, after converting to the Sunni faith, he flew to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to begin his Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. It was thereafter that he earned his name, el-Hajj Malik...
On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X held a rally at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City for his newly formed Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a non-religious group that aimed to unite Black Americans in their fight for human rights. His family's house had been destroyed in a firebomb attack only several d...
In the days following the assassination of Malcolm X, police arrested two additional NOI members suspected of being related to killing: Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. All three men were convicted, though Butler and Johnson always claimed innocence and Hayer testified that they weren't involved. In the 1970s, Hayer submitted two affidavits...
As with the assassination of other famous figures, Malcolm X's demise boasts its fair share of theories about what happened that go beyond the official story. Malcolm's own suspicions that he would be killed because of his beliefs were well documented. During a trip to the University of Oxford, he confided to British activist Tariq Ali that he woul...
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Feb 26, 2018 · Archival footage from Malcolm X’s assassination on Feb. 21, 1965, in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York City. (Video: Smithsonian Channel) The shooting began in the Audubon Ballroom just...
Feb 21, 2020 · On February 21, 1965, civil rights icon Malcolm X was gunned down and killed in front of his wife and children while giving a speech in New York City. Watch NBC News coverage from that day.
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Feb 26, 2018 · Archival footage from Malcolm X’s assassination on Feb. 21, 1965, in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
Jan 26, 1994 · In 1965, under attack from the Nation of Islam and under surveillance by the FBI, Malcolm X was assassinated while delivering a speech. Who killed him and why remains a mystery to this day,...
Aug 27, 2020 · Page-Turner. The Day Malcolm X Was Killed. At the height of his powers, the Black-nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder. By Les...
