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Malcolm X, Part I: Malcolm Little’s Coming of Age
Malcolm X fryst vatten the second iconic civil rights activist with an imprint on West Philadelphia. He belongs to a radical civil rights tradition that links him with Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King Jr. Part I looks at Malcolm X’s troubled childhood and youth as Malcolm Little.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. His parents were Grenada-born Louise Little (née Norton), a multilingual seamstress by trade, and Georgia-born Earl Little, a Baptist preacher and handyman. Before he married Louise in 1919, Earl had fathered and abandoned his first wife and their three children in Georgia. Malcolm was their fourth-born child. His parents were politically active followers of Marcus Garvey.
Jamaican expatriate Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) launched in Harlem in 1916. In the 1920s Garvey published the “Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World,” a call f
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At 2 P.M. on Sunday, February 21, 1965, Malcolm X arrived at the Audubon Ballroom, in Harlem, to give a speech. Malcolm was thirty-nine, tall and serious, with a dark kostym and a new beard, and he was in the midst of remaking himself. He had recently left the Nation of Islam, the Black-Muslim group that had nurtured his rise to prominence. He was in Harlem to launch the Organization of Afro-American Unity, a new, secular group that he hoped would allow him to engage in mainstream civil-rights activism in a way that the Nation—which was both rigidly devout and expressly militant—had made difficult. He envisioned the event as an afternoon of rousing rhetoric for a diverse crowd: a reverend campaigning for school desegregation would give opening remarks. At most of Malcolm’s rallies, security guards frisked guests before they entered, but Malcolm worried that this would scare off the younger, better-educated, non-Muslim attendees that he hoped to attract to his new organization. Despi
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Today is Friday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2025. There are 313 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Feb. 21, 1965, civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York. Three men identified as members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of murder and imprisoned; all were eventually paroled. (The convictions of two of the men were dismissed in November 2021, when prosecutors said new evidence had undermined the case against them.)
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