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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born in 1925 and died in 1965), was
black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, who was a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, and when Malcolm was six years old, ....
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.... of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).
In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, and he began advocating racial solidarity, and adopted
the Arabic name El-Hajj Mal ....
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