Malcolm X

The Civil Rights Movements throughout the sixties were very turbulent at times and a lot of activists were injured or even killed, one of them was Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a very influential man to many people and led the Civil Rights in a lot of areas in the U.S. Malcolm X was a great civil rights leader because he had a troubling childhood that made him who he was, he made speeches to the people to defend themselves from the white oppression, and his philosophies carried on after his death. At the age of six, Malcolm’s father who was a baptist minister and supporter of the early black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, was ran over by a street car. The possible suspects were white supremacists. The family was then so poor that Malcolm’s mother had to cook dandelion greens from the street to give food to her children (Britannica). After the disappearance of Malcolm's parents, his siblings and he decided to go to foster homes. Malcolm dropped out of school when a white teacher told him it was unrealistic of him to become
This trip led him to focus to Pan-Africanism other than the ideology of The Nation of Islam (Islamic). When Malcolm was making a speech, he was shot and murdered. Many thought it was the Nation of Islam who murdered him because he left the group. Others think the U.S. government sent agents to kill Malcolm X out of fear of his previous actions. Before Malcolm’s death he started to unite great partnership between the American oppression of African Americans and oppression occurring around the world towards people of color. The cause of his death led to the Afro-American Unity organization (that he created after Hajj) to end (Examining). His death, ideas, and speeches all added to the enlargement of black nationalist ideology and the Black Power movement and also encouraged the values of autonomy and freedom among African Americans