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Biography – Brother Malcolm X Shabazz

Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, his mother, Louise Little, was a housewife and mother of eight children. Earl Little, his father was a supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Open Baptist preacher father spoke Malcolm speeches on the street corner to promote the need for black people "back to Africa", which was ideal main Garvey.

Little activism attracted unfavorable attention by a white supremacist organization called the Black Legion, an offshoot of the extremely racist Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's family was to move two times before he was four, so well known beginning with racism, politics and morbid preoccupation with the lives of their families.

In 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned, and two years later, Earl Little was killed. It was thought that two men, members of the Legion Black, had been found at a local bar, hit him on the back of the head and killed him by setting him in front of the tram tracks a streetcar. Little had two life insurance policies on himself, but authorities determined that his death was a suicide. On another occasion, members of the Ku Klux Klan rode to his house, and Louise Little had to grab a shotgun and point it at to make them leave. Malcolm had been a moment before grabbing the gun himself same. It would not be the first time that kept the use of a firearm to his enemies.

Malcolm's mother suffered a major emotional crisis for several years after the death of her husband. She then committed to a mental institution, and she was in and out of these institutions for 26 years. Their children were sent to a variety foster homes and orphanages. Malcolm, a particularly bright "half" of the child, had been the one for whom his family had purchased glasses for glasses looks so famous Malcolm X was born.

Malcolm was an excellent student and received high marks in all tests, to graduate from high school with honors. However, a favorite female teacher of his strokes his dreams of becoming a lawyer, saying he was not an objective "realistic for a black man." After Therefore, Malcolm dropped out, moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as shoeshine odd jobs. Tired of low pay, job unrealistic monotonous, traveled to Harlem, New York – where he began his life in the Underworld infamous Black misdemeanors. It was the management of various narcotics, prostitution and rings gambling in 1942, which began life as sordid underground gay prostitute and pimp just to earn a living. Once broke a pawn shop, stealing only a watch.

Malcolm formed a partnership with another man, "Shorty" Jarvis. They moved to Boston, and in 1946 were arrested and convicted of theft charges. Malcolm was sentenced to ten years in prison but was paroled after serving seven years. A romantic story was composed about how he had robbed a bank using a gun loaded with blanks, and that he had done for the love of a beautiful white woman, only to get coverage of media.

In fact, he used his time in prison to further his education, reading books in the prison library. One of these books was the Koran, the holy book of Islam, Malcolm and his brother Reginald visited him in jail and help you convert to Islam. Reginald belonged bit the Nation of Islam – and he was very enthusiastic about it.

Elijah Muhammad was the leader of Nation of Islam that originally attracted the attention of Malcolm. Muhammad's teachings were that the targets were on purpose to keep black people in the United States political, economic and social development, justice and success. The Nation of Islam was fighting for a section of the country to become Black America, separate from the U.S. controlled by whites. Malcolm decided to become a devout Muslim and follower of Muhammad, and changed its name to Little X. Little hated the name, which he considered to be a slave name, and given the name Muhammad "X" meant a lot to him.

He was paroled, finally, in 1952, and being very handsome, brilliant and eloquent, was appointed once a minister and national spokesman of the Nation of Islam. He became a media darling, with a high presence of young and charismatic on camera and was seen as the Nation of Islam spokesman best. Elijah Muhammad had established mosques in several cities, including Detroit and Harlem, and Malcolm X used newspapers radio and television for the Nation of Islam's political ideology through Black America and others. Its unity, conviction, honesty obvious in its ideology politics and extreme devotion to the cause attracted a large number of new members to the Nation of Islam, swelling its membership from 500 in 1952 to 30,000 in 1963. It is assumed he met his wife, Betty Sanders, outside a radio station in a corridor around this time, but probably actually met after of a speech Malcolm X gave at a temple in Harlem Islam.

The mounting controversy surrounding the brilliant young black militant leader appeared to him in a special TV with Mike Wallace in 1959, "The hate that hate produced." The program promotes Malcolm X as one of the Nation of Islam's most prominent leaders. His fame (or infamy) had started to be successful beyond its leader, Elijah Muhammad, that may have caused some jealousy on the part of Muhammad. The youngest, Malcolm X sexiest beautiful women attracted that Muhammad wanted.

While racial tensions due to segregation and the civil rights movement mounted in the turbulent sixties, Malcolm X captured the government's attention, and the FBI. As they were doing with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., infiltrated their organization, making mistakes, wiretaps and cameras around their headquarters and homes to monitor the activities of the Nation of Islam. As largest member of the NOI, a member of the FBI even became personal bodyguard of Malcolm X. The stories about the affairs of Malcolm X was having with other male Nation of Islam began to circulate freely in the country.

In 1963, Malcolm X learned that Elijah Muhammad, who followed their leader in the notice, was having sex with six women within the organization, all young and beautiful, and some of these relationships were born out of wedlock. Malcolm X, be a political and social conservative who fought for the rights of women to dress conservatively and not reveal, was upset by a highly Muhammad behavior. Would their leader to be censored, perhaps even dismissed.

Malcolm X had proclaimed stuck with the teachings of Islam, which included celibacy remaining until his marriage to Betty Sanders in 1958. Obviously, it was not a virgin when he married, as he had lived life in the Black Underworld for several years, but said he had at least tried to maintain a conservative life, once it had become. So Malcolm X Muhammad refused attempts to cover up their affairs, blasting complaints about them to the media. He said he was deeply offended by the actions of their leader, as he had considered "the life prophet of God. "He said he felt guilt for helping so many people join the Nation of Islam, an organization he said he now believes it was built on lies, deception, unfair practices and dishonesty.

Around this time, Malcolm X made a comment about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. "We never foresaw that the chickens come home to roost" was the famous comment that the media and the public loses a lot of sympathy for Malcolm X and its cause. Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X had been formally "silenced" for ninety days, although Malcolm X said it was for other reasons. So in March 1964 Malcolm X officially terminated his membership in the Nation of Islam, the religious foundation of a completely new organization, the Muslim mosque. And that same year, Malcolm X was the first formal pilgrimage to Mecca, which is what devout Muslims must make at least once during their lives.

He said the pilgrimage also known as "the pilgrimage" was "more positive experience of my life", and found to express their beliefs, thoughts and ideas with many people from many different diverse cultures, many of whom were Caucasians. For the first time, Malcolm X was able to communicate with blonde, eyes blue people he could call his "brothers in Islam." This experience completely changed his mind about the integration, which delivers to the idea a United States internal Black Nation and give hope for a better future.

The idea of a separate country within the United States was then seen as highly practical anyway, so now when Malcolm X gave speeches, which was to preach to all races, not just African Americans. It was during this devout Muslim holy walk that local Muslims gave Malcolm his Sunni name, Shabazz, now had a real name, not just a symbol. Still, it would always be more generally known as Malcolm X. He and his wife were declared as Sunni Muslims.

While on the pilgrimage to Mecca, he spoke of its difficult official position with the members of the NOI, which had been discussing plots to kill him. "I know they're going to kill me," he told his wife Betty. " Take care of the children for me. "He said he had faith that I would see her and her children again someday in heaven of Islam. The FBI also warned its officers Malcolm X was marked by the murder, as an undercover officer had been ordered by the Nation of Islam to put a bomb in his car.

No had repeated attempts on the life of Malcolm X through it all, from birth, and he was "accustomed" something. He was born with a hair color natural blonde, who hated, because it meant they were whites, which caused his friends to call him "Detroit Red" as a nickname. In the courtroom, had denounced his white heritage and his red hair. Once your friends "conker" to make your hair color is a red uniform, which seemed a bit artificial.

Malcolm X is often used to say I wanted was completely black or African American – or perhaps all – and part Indian. He said some of his bushy red hair was the result to be part Indian, and a listing of Black Americans involved being crushed by the rock of Plymouth. At one time, painted a picture of a large black blue flower, a sort of pink cloth covering the entire picture. It seems that represented how much I wanted to be "blue black", or completely black.

Seemed somewhat also as a flurry of arms, which is what he thought would end his life, and would have meant the Scottish "flower of manhood." This is supposedly the male breast, where he was shot during his murder, several weapons explosions also exploiting its back. However, during an alleged attempt to assassinate him first, who was also stabbed in the chest four times. There is a picture of how he took a bum rush "of" by Nation of Islam members, being dragged down a hallway inside the building in a line of men in black tie throughout the flapping is stab wounds, but did not die of it. In any case, did become mortally wounded in the chest, which may explain his painting of a flower "flower of manhood" – in black and blue.

I also remember a Black Comics cartoon of a white boy looking version of Malcolm X, Black, surrounded by three strange looking men, but that seemed intended to harm. It seemed to be shouting out loud in sexual pleasure. I do not know who made that cartoon, or what is meant by it exactly.

Malcolm X actually usually traveled with bodyguards, but as noted earlier, one of them was still an FBI infiltrator. No one knew where Malcolm X was to be assassinated was only a matter of time. In February 1965, Malcolm X's family home, a small one in East Elmhurst, New York, was bombed, a week before being killed. No one was injured by the bombing, but the murder on 21 February was a success.

Harlem's Audubon Ballroom was packed to the rafters for a speech by the famous Shabazz, Malcolm X, one that would pay tribute to his father once more the assertion of their own links with the Movement to return to Africa. His friend Alex Haley, who had helped write "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," was an advocate of returning to Africa, like many African Americans.

As Malcolm X was speaking, three gunmen rushed to the scene, firing directly into their fifteen times in the chest. The entire audience in the ballroom, including the wife of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz X, ran to the podium, but it was too late. Betty cradled his dying body in her arms. He said later that his naked chest exploded and killed Scarlet was "a sorry sight. "Four of the children of their children, unfortunately at the scene.

Only 39 years old, the same age as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be when he was shot in 1968, Brother Malcolm X Shabazz was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. Almost two thousand people attended the funeral, which took place in Harlem for about a week later at the Faith Temple Church. His friends insisted on burying Malcolm X themselves, rather than leaving it blank gravediggers, by what they took shovels and buried him. This was in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale York, New York. Only a few months later, Betty gave birth to twin daughters, who were Malcolm X, but there were a total of six children, all of whom were girls. Some say he had two more children, boys.

The three murderers Talmadge Hayer were, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. They were convicted of first degree murder in 1966, and reportedly sentenced to death. Two of them were captured in the scene, and All three were members of the Nation of Islam.

It is believed that the death of the husband of Betty X was ordered by a superior in the group. The Nation of Islam was a large group Afro-Americans forced to reorder their priorities in a country dominated by white racial supremacists, murderers, thieves, prostitutes and many others that seemed strange being "out to get you" or stop them nothing major as a moral, healthy life. There is a story that some people tried to establish Malcolm X with a black powder powder spraying job for sex begins in an old green. It is said he refused the job, and that was the beginning of the recovery of the same.

There have been numerous documentaries, books and films about the legend that was Malcolm X. Many of the stories about him have been shown to be false, urban legends began to settle on the Nation of Islam and powerful and charismatic young leader of Black America. There was a great resurgence of interest in Malcolm X in 1992 when director Spike Lee released the film around the country, "Malcolm X" starring Denzel Washington. The film received two Oscar nominations, but is seen mostly in its Payment for Africa multitudes of America – whites do not seem to want him for unknown reasons.

Malcolm X – Women and Family

Nobody seems to know Betty Sanders about the early life and family history. He was born, however, in Detroit, Michigan, and is the daughter of Shelman Sandlin and a woman named Sanders. Sanders was an illegitimate children, one with a troubled upbringing, and she was devoted to the adoptive parents, who grow up in a nice house, middle-class Detroit. Because of his difficult childhood, she dedicated her life to caring for African American children, health and sex education.

Betty moved to New York to get away from the views narrow-minded of whites in the South, studying nursing at Brooklyn State Hospital. One night, friends took her to hear about Malcolm X from the Nation of Islam in a Islamic temple in Harlem. Essence Magazine, a magazine specifically for black American women, said in 1992 that Betty's friend offered to introduce Malcolm X after he finished speaking.

Betty's reaction to it was "Big deal!" But she went to her speech. Later continued in the interview: "But then I looked and saw this man in the aisle sort of galloping extreme right of the podium. He was tall, was thin, and how galloping it looked like a much more important than the podium … well, reached the podium, and I sat up straight. "

Betty was very impressed with the speech of Malcolm X. Then she grabbed him between racks, and talked about racism in Alabama. She began attending all his speeches and lectures, and when graduated from nursing school, was a member of the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad was given as the surname "X" in all his followers, she was now Betty X, like Malcolm X, no longer burdened with a "slave name."

During this time, Malcolm had lost relatives who impregnated his conscience. The man was losing his family in a pitched battle with the authorities – because of her family to be seen as hostile territory in the United States. Were descendants slaves. This gave them a sense of lost innocence indelible and deep bitterness. Always forced to defend a position without being technically allowed to do so after have been forced out of all positions of power except for some limited religious authority, did everything possible in a sea of remote possibilities to find out how dealing with life and death.

When Betty X was on the pilgrimage to Mecca with her husband, she was given the Muslim name Shabazz, becoming Betty X Shabazz.

His family survived the firebombing of their home – due to the activism of Malcolm X – out of Queens, New York. On February 21, 1965, Betty X and its four children witnessed the murder in Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. Betty X was reported covered their children with his own body on the dance floor as the shots rang fifteen people admired extraordinary courage. She had met her husband's death was imminent.

In his book on Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, "wrote Alex Haley, "Sister Betty came through the village, herself a nurse, and those who recognize your back. Fell on his knees, looking at his bare chest bullet holes, sobbing, "They killed him!"

Malcolm X was reportedly survived for six to eight children. Need to renew themselves with as many children as possible, they were caught in a moment of time, in an ongoing battle with the authorities. And yet, he defended himself and won in many ways, most of which were not violent. There's a picture of Malcolm X holding a twenty-gauge shotgun near a window in front of his house at the time, and in an interview, said he would like much to "kill some crackers," meaning whites.

At least two of them, Brother Malcolm X Shabazz and Sister Betty X Shabazz, met and loved, if only briefly. They became a famous and beloved couple, who said a story he met while recording a radio program of the Nation of Islam, and another story says he met after a speech given by Malcolm X. In any case, which eventually became one with the other. This is an event that many people born in this land are not fortunate enough to enjoy during their lives.

His daughter Ilyasah Shabazz wrote a famous autobiography, "Growing Up X" and after the assassination of Malcolm X, said his mother received much help from friends rich and famous. They bought a beautiful house in Mount Vernon, New York for his family. Ilyasah Shabazz writes that his mother Betty X worked hard to keep all his children, and that was protected, upper middle class lives. They had luxuries such as housekeepers, drivers care, exclusive social clubs and expensive private schools in mostly white, tutors, and summer camps.

Malcolm X – Brief list of accomplishments

Approximately one years after he was paroled in 1953, Malcolm X was appointed minister in the Nation of Islam mosque in Boston. The following year, became the minister in two other Muslim temples, one in Philadelphia and another in New York. "Muhammad Speaks," the Nation of Islam newspaper, was started by Malcolm X in 1957, and from the sixties, he was asked to participate in several debates. These forums included in the radio stations (Los Angeles, New York and Washington) television programs ("Open Mind" and "The Mike Wallace News Program") and universities (Harvard Law School, Howard University and the University Columbia).

Malcolm X became a friend and was the minister of the famous heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, and he helped build and join the Nation of Islam. Clay announced that his new name was Muhammad Ali in February 1964. And in March 1964 after leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm formed the Muslim Mosque, months later, he also organized the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X," which was worked for two years with his friend the writer Alex Haley of "Roots" TV miniseries fame, was published posthumously in November 1965. The book tells many stories that have been controversial, but the end of the book contains scenes of the actual murder of Brother Malcolm X Shabazz.

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