Essay on Malcolm X.

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Created on 10/20/2003 8:39 PM Have you ever wondered about Black History Month and what it means to us? Well listen! And listen up carefully… Black History Month is a great month dedicated to the lives, history and the past well being of all black people all around the world throughout all the ages till now and the strong phenomena behind them. Today, we see them as role models, national heroes, stars and most of all people that will be remembered for all time. It is our duty to therefore honour, respect and follow after their courage, success and reputation. This October I have chosen to present a strongly fascinating and encouraging essay about a man who stood up for the human rights of millions and millions of black people all across the globe which effected both then and now. He was positively a stubborn ideological hero. His boldness, braveness and public outcries without ceasing all soured him up to the utter most well recognized position on the world stage. My great audience, this is a wonderful yet chilling reminder of the man who was and forever will be known as MALCOLM X.          It all began on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA when Malcolm Little (as he was known then) was finally born.   His rather busy mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with a family of eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.                 Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.                 Regardless of the Little's efforts to stop the Legion from their menace, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground, and two years later Earl's mutilated body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks. Police
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ruled both accidents, but the Little's were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise had an emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.                        Surprisingly, through all the trauma, Malcolm who as small as he was, then became a smart, focused student and graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favourite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm changed his mind ...

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