Google biography malcolm x summary

Log in to check out faster. African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the s and '60s. Malcolm X May 19, to February 21, was a minister, human rights activist and prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the s and s.

Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere members at the time he was released from prison in to 40, members by Articulate, passionate and a naturally gifted and inspirational orator, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary," including violence. The fiery civil rights leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination on February 21, , at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech.

Malcolm was the fourth of eight children born to Louise, a homemaker, and Earl Little, a preacher who was also an active member of the local chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and avid supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.

Malcolm x death

Due to Earl Little's civil rights activism, the family was subjected to frequent harassment from white supremacist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and one of its splinter factions, the Black Legion. In fact, Malcolm X had his first encounter with racism before he was even born. In , Malcolm X was kicked out of school and sent to a juvenile detention home in Mason, Michigan.

The white couple who ran the home treated him well, but he wrote in his autobiography that he was treated more like a "pink poodle" or a "pet canary" than a human being.