American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
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He walked the line between prophet and provocateur — the Nation of Islam's sharpest voice, calling for separation when integration was the mainstream dream, then breaking with the Nation entirely after Mecca shifted his vision. Shot dead at 39, his name still marks the fault line in how America argues about race, power, and what justice demands.
Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, he moved through foster homes after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization, then landed in prison in 1946 on larceny and burglary charges. Inside, he found the Nation of Islam, shed "Little" for "X" to mark the African name stolen by slavery, and emerged in 1952 as the group's public face for the next twelve years. He preached Black empowerment and separation, criticized Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, and stayed under FBI surveillance through the 1950s onward. By the 1960s he'd soured on the Nation and its leader Elijah Muhammad; after t…
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We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America.
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity.
If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress.
President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon.
As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled.
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