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I love my 'This Day in History' sites. (I monitor 9 of them).
I knew Malcolm X was assassinated on this day but I learned quite a bit more about this interesting man by today's remembrance. Three things in particular: His father was also assassinated. By the Black Legion organization which I had never heard of. Why he chose the name Malcolm X and that he took yet another name, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity which unlike the Nation of Islam was active with the Civil Rights movement.
The "lack of discord among orthodox Muslims" Malcolm observed surely rings hollow in today's Middle East.
Excerpt from today's article:
"...Elijah Muhammad, who believed that Malcolm had become too powerful,...suspend(ed) him from the Nation of Islam.
...Malcolm formally left the organization and made a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, where he was profoundly affected by the lack of racial discord among orthodox Muslims. He returned to America as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and in June 1964 founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated black identity and held that racism, not the white race, was the greatest foe of the African American. Malcolm's new movement steadily gained followers, and his more moderate philosophy became increasingly influential in the civil rights movement, especially among the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City."
More on this life, work and assassination:
This Day in History History.com What Happened Today in History
I knew Malcolm X was assassinated on this day but I learned quite a bit more about this interesting man by today's remembrance. Three things in particular: His father was also assassinated. By the Black Legion organization which I had never heard of. Why he chose the name Malcolm X and that he took yet another name, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity which unlike the Nation of Islam was active with the Civil Rights movement.
The "lack of discord among orthodox Muslims" Malcolm observed surely rings hollow in today's Middle East.
Excerpt from today's article:
"...Elijah Muhammad, who believed that Malcolm had become too powerful,...suspend(ed) him from the Nation of Islam.
...Malcolm formally left the organization and made a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, where he was profoundly affected by the lack of racial discord among orthodox Muslims. He returned to America as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and in June 1964 founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated black identity and held that racism, not the white race, was the greatest foe of the African American. Malcolm's new movement steadily gained followers, and his more moderate philosophy became increasingly influential in the civil rights movement, especially among the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City."
More on this life, work and assassination:
This Day in History History.com What Happened Today in History