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  Malcolm X : A Research Site
The new technology of posting video to the web has led to an explosion of web videos that document and interpret the life and legacy of Malcolm X. You can click on one of these sites and find videos from 1 minute to 2 hours.
This is an exciting time to experience Malcolm X. Spread the word.
Our greatest challenge is to understand Malcolm X's method of critical independent thinking.
www.brothermalcolm.net   (70 words)

  
  Beyond Fad and Fashion Understanding The Essence of Malcolm X   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malcolm's continued capacity for growth and development, his unflinching commitment to African people and oppressed humanity, and his courageous, selfless service to his people, even in the face of death, are the hallmarks of Malcolm's character.
Malcolm's joining the Nation of Islam under the guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a crucial factor in Malcolm's transformation from Malcolm Little, aka Detroit Red, to Malcolm X. After his pilgrimage to Mecca and conversion to orthodox Islam, Malcolm became and would remain a devout Muslim for the rest of his life.
* Malcolm X was a Pan-Africanist and an internationalist.
www.black-collegian.com /african/beyond.shtml   (1836 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Malcolm X   (Site not responding. Last check: )
According to Malcolm X's autobiography, his mother had been threatened by Ku Klux Klansmen while she was pregnant with him in December of 1924; his mother recalled that the family was warned to leave Omaha, because his father's involvement with UNIA was, according to the Klansmen, "stirring up trouble".
Malcolm X graduated from junior high school at the top of his class, but dropped out soon after an admired teacher told him that his aspirations of being a lawyer were "no realistic goal for a nigger".
Malcolm X was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Malcolm-X   (9536 words)

  
  Malcolm X - MSN Encarta
Malcolm X rose rapidly in the Nation of Islam organization as a minister and recruiter of new members.
Malcolm X also had come to reject some of the tenets of the Nation of Islam, including Elijah Muhammad’s theory that the white race was created by a dissident “mad scientist” named Yakub.
In 1964, shortly after his break with Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X made a pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy Muslim city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of the founder of Islam.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552252/Malcolm_X.html   (1430 words)

  
 King Encyclopedia
While King and Malcolm X continued to be at odds over the role of nonviolence in the movement, Malcolm X met with other civil rights organizations in the South and repeatedly tried to establish a relationship with King.
Malcolm X was particularly harsh in his criticisms of the nonviolent strategy to achieve civil rights reforms advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr.
When Malcolm X remarked that President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 was a case of the "chickens coming home to roost,” Elijah Muhammad used the opportunity to ban his increasingly popular minister from speaking in public.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/x_malcolm.htm   (1271 words)

  
 Malcolm X
Minister Malcolm X was said to be the only Black person who "could stop a race riot-or start one." In January 1958 he married Betty X, who was also a member of the Nation of Islam.
In 1964, Malcolm X went on his pilgrimage to Mecca, which is obligatory for orthodox Muslims, and there he began to consider changing his views towards integration.
When Malcolm X was delivering a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on February 21, 1965, he was shot down by Black Muslims; but it is widely suspected that there were higher powers behind his murder.
www.swagga.com /malcolm.htm   (915 words)

  
 El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Malcolm Little, the convert to the Nation of Islam, changed his name to Malcolm X and became a strong and forceful champion of Mr.
Malcolm X, as the national spokesman of the Nation of Islam, was perhaps the most potent force behind the publicity of the Black nationalist religious body in the United States and overseas.
Although Malcolm X tried to clarify the meaning of his statement, the NOI leadership saw it as an act of disobedience to their supreme leader, Mr.
www.youngmuslims.ca /biographies/display.asp?ID=6   (2023 words)

  
 Biography of Malcolm X   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malcolm was a smart, focused student and graduated from junior high at the top of his class.
Malcolm was largely credited with increasing membership in the Nation of Islam from 500 in 1952 to 30,000 in 1963.
Malcolm X is buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
www.africawithin.com /malcolmx/malcolm_bio.htm   (1083 words)

  
 malcolm x on education
Malcolm X is a fascinating person to approach as an educational thinker - not because he was an academic or had any scholastic achievements but as an example of what can be achieved by someone engages in 'homemade' or self-education.
Malcolm X (1925 1965) was born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925.
Malcolm’s father died when he was six and his mother was put in a mental home when he was about twelve.
www.infed.org /thinkers/malcolm.htm   (1284 words)

  
 Malcolm X
Malcolm's mother never recovered from her husband's death and in 1937 was sent to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, where she stayed for the next twenty-six years.
Malcolm was suspended from the movement by Elijah Muhammad after he made a series of extremist speeches.
Malcolm X was shot dead at a party meeting in Harlem on 21st February, 1965.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmalcolmX.htm   (2533 words)

  
 Malcolm X-Malcolm X Biography-Speech of Malcolm X
Malcolm X (Malcolm X Little; later El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)(1925-1965), a leading figure in the 20th-century movement for fl liberation in the United States, and arguably its most enduring symbol.Malcolm X has been called many things: Pan-Africanist (see Pan-Africanism), father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist (see Socialism), and a menace to society.
Malcolm X and his partners did not seem very "political" at the time, but they dodged the draft so as not to lose their lives over a "white man's war," and they avoided wage work whenever possible.
Malcolm X convinced some SWP members of the revolutionary potential of ordinary fl ghetto dwellers, and he began to speak more critically of capitalism.
www.africanaonline.com /malcom_x.htm   (1931 words)

  
 A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Malcolm X | PBS
Malcolm X was sent on speaking tours around the country and soon became the most effective speaker and organizer for the Nation of Islam.
Malcolm X described the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Nov. 22, 1963) as a “case of chickens coming home to roost”—an instance of the kind of violence that whites had long used against fls.
Malcolm's success had by this time aroused jealousy within the Black Muslim hierarchy, and, in response to his comments on the Kennedy assassination, Elijah Muhammad suspended Malcolm from the movement.
www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/malcolm_x.html   (541 words)

  
 Malcolm X   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was an important leader during the Civil Rights era.
Malcolm X later married, Betty, in 1958, in Lansing, Michigan.
A very important leader during the Civil Rights movement in America, he was quoted as saying, "Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.” Malcolm X believed that peoples' goals needed to be reached by violence.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/00158/malcolmx.html   (306 words)

  
 Green Left - Spike Lee's Malcolm X
Malcolm's final warning to the vanquished foe was later addressed to the white oppressors: Don't mess with someone who's prepared to die.
Malcolm's conversion to the Nation of Islam in prison and his success in building that movement dominate the middle of the film.
Lee nicely juxtaposes Malcolm's backward attitude to women with the strength of his wife Betty and her perceptive appreciation of Elijah Muhammad, which initiates Malcolm's eventual break with the Nation of Islam.
www.greenleft.org.au /1993/91/4459   (810 words)

  
 YouTube - Malcolm X in a Roundtable Discussion
Malcolm X was not a racist or violent...go read the damn book, and stop being ignorant.
Malcolm X at Corn Hill Methodist Church (3 of 3)
Malcolm X at Corn Hill Methodist Church (1 of 3)
www.youtube.com /watch?v=xyyFGOAwTYM   (475 words)

  
 The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University
The research for the biography, tentatively entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is ongoing.
Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements and the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography.
Check out a new chronology of the life of Malcolm X, compiled from original research by the Malcolm X Project staff.
www.columbia.edu /cu/ccbh/mxp   (184 words)

  
 The Enemyboard :: View topic - A tribute to Malcolm X
Malcolm X spoke these words on Feb. 18, 1965 at Barnard College in New York, three days before he was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
Malcolm was beginning to link racism to capitalism and seeing that, just as oppressed nationalities determine their struggle against the oppressing class, that there was a much larger, multi-national working class struggling against the capitalist rulers.
If Malcolm x had lived til today he would made it real hard for Bush to make escuses for missing fl votes and new orleans and he would have made it hard for fls to find escuses too.
www.publicenemy.com /pb/viewtopic.php?t=25215&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=   (1763 words)

  
 X, Malcolm - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"I was gone on debating": Malcolm X's prison debates and public confrontations.
Malcolm X's critique of the education of Black people.
Profile: Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center opens to mark Malcolm X's 80th birthday
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/X/X-XMalcol.asp   (179 words)

  
 Malcolm X Inspiration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malcolm X, a lot has been said about the man as witnessed by the numerous books written.
All of the books, with the exception of one, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, penned by Alex Haley, is based on hearsay, conjecture and opinions.
That man was Malcolm X! And as prophetic as it might appear, the elder was right.
www.gilscottheron.com /malxintro.htm   (398 words)

  
 What’s in a Name? Understanding Malcolm X--Literature/U.S. History lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malcolm X was born in 1925 as Malcolm Little.
Malcolm X’s beliefs were shaped by the racial hatred of white supremacy.
Context: Malcolm X was first a victim of white supremacist racism when his childhood home was attacked and burned by the Ku Klux Klan.
school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/malcolmx   (1922 words)

  
 DNK Amazon Store :: Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
Meanwhile, Malcolm's "X" is marketed in countless business endeavors and is stylishly branded on baseball hats and T-shirts sported by every age, race, and gender.
With impassioned and compelling force, Dyson argues that Malcolm was too formidable a historic figure--the movements he led too variable and contradictory, the passion and intelligence he summoned too extraordinary and disconcerting--to be viewed through any narrow cultural prism.
A rare and important book, Making Malcolm casts new light not only on the life and career of a seminal fl leader, but on the aspirations and passions of the growing numbers who have seized on his life for insight and inspiration.
www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0195102851   (559 words)

  
 A YEAR AT MALCOLM X / A promotion that feels like a graduation / Some at Hunters Point school go all out to mark ...
Malcolm X teachers say they believe parents go all out for the culmination of elementary school because in this poor, often violent neighborhood, too many teens are gunned down in gang warfare or drop out before high school graduation.
Three former students of Malcolm X -- all teenagers -- have been shot in the neighborhood in the past couple of months, and one was killed.
Parents at Malcolm X have the least education of any group of parents at any public elementary school in the city, according to state records.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/16/BAGV9JF4TM1.DTL   (1623 words)

  
 Malcolm X
Malcolm was raised in a background of ethnic awareness and dignity, but violence was sparked by white racists trying to stop fl people such as Rev. Little from preaching the fl cause.
Malcolm became a drop-out from school at the age of fifteen.
Interest in Malcolm X has seen a surge recently due to Spike Lee's movie, X. El-Hajj Malik is a source of pride for African-Americans, Muslims, and Americans in general.
www.colostate.edu /Orgs/MSA/find_more/m_x.html   (2940 words)

  
 Malcolm X College of Chicago
As the Beacon College for Health Science Education in the City of Chicago, Malcolm X College is at the forefront of meeting the growing health care needs of the community.
In that capacity, Malcolm X College offers the largest selection of Health Science (Career) Degrees and Certificate programs in Cook County.
Malcolm X College students participate in an overnight camp offered every summer to help youth who have asthma.
malcolmx.ccc.edu /aas/respiratoryCare/default.asp   (428 words)

  
 Malcolm X
Malcolm X: A Research Site The most comprehensive on the internet.
They refuse to give permission of any kind to reprint these works, even though we are a public, non-profit library with tremendous respect and admiration for Malcolm, and with the belief that spreading information about him as far and as wide as possible is to the great benefit of humanity.
It is not possible for anyone to own the live recordings of Malcolm's speeches since he did not copyright his speeches at the time; thus the recordings themselves are in the public domain.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/malcolm-x/index.htm   (1583 words)

  
 Malcolm X: A Research Site
Malcolm debates Louis Lomax in Chicago; on "The Negro Revolt," during which Malcolm X states that he has somewhat changed his mind regarding the white man. Appears on "Kup's Show" on Channel 7 in Chicago; states that many whites want to help the struggle of the Negro.
New York Herald Tribune reports that Malcolm X is under protection of police and bodyguards because of anonymous telephone threats to wire service and newspaper that he would be shot if he appeared in court for his eviction trial; nevertheless, Malcolm X testifies at Queens County Civil Court.
Malcolm tours Africa:: by mid October he has visited eleven heads of state, and addressed most of their parliaments; for another five weeks he will continue his tour "to better acquaint himself with the problems facing the continent," as he says in a speech in Lagos.
www.brothermalcolm.net /mxtimeline.html   (5680 words)

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