Malcolm X Day: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
May 19 @ 6:00 pm
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ADDRESS: Virtual Celebration
Malcolm X
Malcolm X in March 1964
Malcolm X in March 1964
Born Malcolm Little
May 19, 1925
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Died February 21, 1965 (aged 39)
New York City, U.S.
Cause of death Assassination (gunshot wounds)
Resting place Ferncliff Cemetery
Other names el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: ٱلْحَاجّ مَالِك ٱلشَّبَازّ, romanized: al-Ḥājj Mālik ash-Shabāzz)
Occupation Minister, activist
Organization
Nation of Islam, Muslim Mosque, Inc., Organization of Afro-American Unity
Movement
Black nationalism Pan-Africanism
Spouse(s) Betty Shabazz (m. 1958)
Children 6 (including Attallah, Qubilah, and Ilyasah)
Relatives Louise Helen Norton Little (mother)
Malcolm Shabazz (grandson)[1]
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series of foster homes or with relatives after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. He joined the Nation of Islam, adopted the name Malcolm X (to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname), and quickly became one of the organization's most influential leaders in 1952. Malcolm X then served as the public face of the organization for a dozen years, where he advocated for Black empowerment, Black supremacy, and the separation of black and white Americans, and publicly criticized the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration.[2][3] Malcolm X also expressed pride in some of the Nation's social welfare achievements, namely its free drug rehabilitation program. Throughout his life, beginning in the 1950s, Malcolm X endured surveillance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
In the 1960s, He subsequently embraced Sunni Islam and the civil rights movement after completing the Hajj to Mecca, and became known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.[A] After a brief period of travel across Africa, he founded the Islamic Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI) and the Pan-African Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). 1964 On February 21, 1965, he was assassinated in New York City. Three Nation members were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences. Speculation about the assassination and whether it was conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the Nation, or with law enforcement agencies, have persisted for decades after the shooting.
Malcolm X is also a widely celebrated figure within African-American and Muslim American communities for his pursuit of racial justice. He was posthumously honored with Malcolm X Day, on which he is commemorated in various cities across the United States. Hundreds of streets and schools in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, while the Audubon Ballroom, the site of his assassination, was partly redeveloped in 2005 to accommodate the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
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