Malcolm X's Legacy

Malcolm X was an activist that continued on the legacy that his father showed him and left behind. Just like his father he wanted peace and he wanted to get it even if it meant that things got violent. He wanted the equality for black people. He didn’t think that how blacks were getting treated were fair. He was going to fight for what he thought was right by any means necessary.
Malcolm X was born on May 12, 1925. His parents are Earl little and Louise little. He had eight siblings and the middle child. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska where he spent most of his childhood. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a preacher. Earl his father was a preacher also a supporter of the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Two years after their
He shined shoes but soon he started to sell drugs. He got locked up for ten years and while he was in school he decided to read a lot of books. He joined the Nation of Islam and he changed his name to Malcolm X and dropped Malcolm Little. The X stands for a tribute to the unknown name of his African ancestors where little was entitled to slavery.
After he did his time in jail he decided to go to Detroit where he was the leader of a Nation of Islam group. He also got him his own newspaper titled Muhammad Speaks. He believed that there was no such thing as nonviolent revolution. Because of this his group “The Nation of Islam” grew 400 members and 40,000 by the 1960. Also around this time he acted on the civil rights movement along with Dr. Martin Luther King.
He had begun to study the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught Malcolm that the white society worked to keep African American from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic, and social success. Muhammad thesis was that the black man is the devil and blacks cannot live that had a strong impact on Malcolm. Later on he learned that Muhammad had violated his own teachings by having affairs and fathered several children out of
In 1958 he married Betty Sanders. She was also a member of The Nation of Islam. They had six children all girls and two were a pair of twins. She later on also change he last name to Shabazz and was known as Betty Shabazz. She became a civil right and human rights activist after Malcolm died in 1965.
On the 21st of February at the Audubon Ball Malcolm was about to give his speech. Three men with guns ran towards him and shot him fifth teen times. He was pronounced dead after he arrived at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan New York. The three men that shot him were prosecuted and were also the members of the Nation of Islam. When Malcom died he was 39 years old. Over 1,500 people attended his funeral.
Qubilah Shabazz was the only one of his daughters to witness his death. She is also the mother of Malcolm’s grandson. His name was Malcolm Shabazz and he was 28 when he was died. He was the first male born into Malcolm’s family. In 1997 when he was twelve he set the apartment that his grandma was in on fire. She died in the fire that day. He was beating to death while in Mexico on vacation he died May 9th 2013.
African Americans today still see and saw Malcolm as “a hero for black Americans today” according to David