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Why Is Malcolm X Important?

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According to Biography.com, Malcolm Ten is important considering he was one of the nearly prominent and controversial blackness leaders during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, advocating black pride, a separate black community and violence as a means of self-defence. After his assassination in 1965, his book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" became a bestseller and 1 of the most influential not-fiction books of modern times.

Incarcerated for larceny in 1946, Malcolm X cocky-educated himself in the prison library. While still in prison he converted to the Nation of Islam, a black Muslim movement, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. When he was released in 1952, he began to work with Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam'due south leader. Malcolm X became a powerful and inspirational orator and one of the major black leaders opposing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of non-violent racial integration.

In 1963, Malcolm X broke with Elijah Muhammad, shocked by his mentor'southward hypocrisy and immorality in fathering several illegitimate children, according to Biography.com. In 1964, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and journeyed to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform hajj. While travelling through Africa and the Middle East, he began to re-evaluate his beliefs. When he returned to the United States, he advocated a less tearing approach to race relations and appeared shut to reconciling with the mainstream civil rights move. However, on Feb. 21, 1965, just as he was near to deliver a speech, 3 members of the Nation of Islam shot and killed him.

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Source: https://www.reference.com/history/malcolm-x-important-7a74d6b6d4d3a873?utm_content=params%3Ao%3D740005%26ad%3DdirN%26qo%3DserpIndex&ueid=ac5abba6-8e14-474d-94c2-2f15564575d5

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