Black History Speaks: Malcolm X Speaks
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family’s eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl’s civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm’s fourth birthday.
Regardless of the Little’s efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground. Two years later, Earl’s body was found lying across the town’s trolley tracks.
Police ruled both incidents as accidents, but the Little’s were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise suffered emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.
Eventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm “Shorty” Jarvis, moved back to Boston. In 1946 they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges, and Malcolm was sentenced to 10 years in prison. (He was paroled after serving seven years.) Recalling his days in school, he used the time to further his education. It was during this period of self-enlightenment that Malcolm’s brother Reginald would visit and discuss his recent conversion to the Muslim religion. Reginald belonged to the religious organization the Nation of Islam (NOI).
Intrigued, Malcolm began to study the teachings of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Among other goals, the NOI fought for a state of their own, separate from one inhabited by white people. By the time he was paroled in 1952, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname “X.” (He considered “Little” a slave name and chose the “X” to signify his lost tribal name.)
Intelligent and articulate, Malcolm was appointed as a minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad also charged him with establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. Malcolm utilized newspaper columns, as well as radio and television to communicate the NOI’s message across the United States.
The crowds and controversy surrounding Malcolm made him a media magnet. He was featured in a week-long television special with Mike Wallace in 1959, called “The Hate That Hate Produced.” The program explored the fundamentals of the NOI, and tracked Malcolm’s emergence as one of its most important leaders. Racial tensions ran increasingly high during the early 1960s. In addition to the media, Malcolm’s vivid personality had captured the government’s attention. As membership in the NOI continued to grow, FBI agents infiltrated the organization (one even acted as Malcolm’s bodyguard) and secretly placed bugs, wiretaps, cameras and other surveillance equipment to monitor the group’s activities.
Malcolm decided to found his own religious organization, the Muslim Mosque, Inc.
That same year, Malcolm went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The trip proved life altering. For the first time, Malcolm shared his thoughts and beliefs with different cultures, and found the response to be overwhelmingly positive. When he returned, Malcolm said he had met “blonde-haired, blued-eyed men I could call my brothers.” He returned to the United States with a new outlook on integration and a new hope for the future. This time when Malcolm spoke, instead of just preaching to African-Americans, he had a message for all races.
After repeated attempts on his life, Malcolm rarely traveled anywhere without bodyguards. On February 14, 1965 the home where Malcolm, Betty and their four daughters lived in East Elmhurst, New York was firebombed. Luckily, the family escaped physical injury.
One week later, however, Malcolm’s enemies were successful in their ruthless attempt. At the Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage. They shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
Fifteen hundred people attended Malcolm’s funeral in Harlem on February 27, 1965 at the Faith Temple Church of God in Christ (now Child’s Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ). After the ceremony, friends took the shovels away from the waiting gravediggers and buried Malcolm themselves.Later that year, Betty gave birth to their twin daughters.
The legacy of Malcolm X has moved through generations as the subject of numerous documentaries, books and movies.
Malcolm X is buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
Your words touch me today and I'm 49 miss u brother 😢
Brother Malcolm uplifts me totally, because he taught me to never be intimidated, never be ashamed and never be doubtful. He was a great inspiration to me.
I find it incredibly unbelievable that his own brother Wilfred was such a coward. Failure to attend his own brothers funeral was/ is ludicrous.
We may never have another brave and brutally honest brother like Malcolm
Malcolm was uplifting, bold and defiant.
Malcom was everything you would want in a leader honesty respect truth fearless righteous ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
I really look up to Malcolm X and i still do to this Day . 1966 2020 .. Rest in peace my Brother Malcolm..
Something inside me moves whenever listening to him speaks. He was indeed the greatest human rights activist the world has ever seen.
I love this man...my crush Malcom X
Malcolm's smile is beautiful
This man said that he was a dead man with a smile on his face. Brave, intelligent, genuine. Allah shines his light upon your face
💖🌹💖🌹💖🌹💖🌹 MALCOLM X
So Articulate, so sincere
a hero
A young lady who ran for president in California a few years back says, that a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil
55 years down the road the same problem seams to get worse despite the information technology
Thank you that was excellent!
Malcolm X was a great man. He was full of knowledge and wisdom and a great orator. He was loved by most or all educated people. H has gone but his legacy still lives on And those who planned and plotted to kill him has a prince to pay later. brov RIP
"As long as the situation exists.... 😂 🤣" The commentator didn't get his cheekiness
R. I. P. Omowale/El Haj Malik El Shabazz/Malcolm X...
He's in heaven with Ali right now.
I love this guys
He really loved his nation 🙌💯 from Marcia Parris Robinson
🙏🏿
James Shabazz is fire.
Rip Ozzie Davis! 🙏🏾
I notice all through this video the sound is missing from his speeches i am sure that was done by design , because his messages still reign true to this very day ..
To say you're gonna lead something... No I seek to work with toward a common end
Sad...his religion that went so hard for sold him out and killed him ....smh
The black man were about to go father than we ever known him in America he was about to take the world government to court
And why is nobody questioning him?
i wanna know why you had those speeches muted i need to hear what he said whats being hidden/silenced????? please answer this
Ryu TheOcean RUclips edits copywrited material now. So some of Malcolm x phrases are owned by musicians and wealthy companies who own the rights now . SMH 🤦🏾♂️
@@TheIncarceratedNation so malcolms family must have authorised this for it to actually be, then? They must have really needed the money
رحم الله الحج مالك شباز 💪🏽🇰🇼
Who’s that Black Man hating on Malcom?
why does the damn sound keep going out when hes speaking??????
Censorship sucks
All of the world look at the "afro Americans" as brothers
Biden on the other hand, irritates me!
1440 no sound
HOW DEAR YOU REFER TO MALCOM X AS TIMMED,
that guy doesn't understand the difference about being humble, Malcolm wasn't timed but humbled and showing reverence to his god. He is not going to be in that fierce mode.