Malcolm X - life time-line

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MALCOLM X

                                             

 May 19, 1925   Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, NE

 

 1929   The family's Lansing, MI, home is burned to the ground.

 

1931   Malcolm's father is found dead on the town's trolley tracks.

1946   Malcolm is sentenced to 8-10 years for armed robbery; serves 6 ½ years at Charlestown, MA State Prison.

1948-49   Converts to the Nation of Islam while in prison.

1953   Changes name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X and becomes Assistant Minister of Nation of Islam's Detroit Temple.

1954   Promoted to Minister of Nation of Islam's New York Temple.

1958   Marries Sister Betty X in Lansing, Michigan.

1959   Travels to Middle East and Africa.

1963   Nation of Islam orders Malcolm X to be silent, allegedly because of remarks concerning President Kennedy's assassination.

March, 1964   Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam and starts his new organization, Muslim Mosque, Inc.

May, 1964   Starts the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a secular political group.

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February 14, 1965   Malcolm X's home is firebombed.

February 21, 1965   Malcolm X is assassinated he begins speaking at the Audubon Ballroom, New York.

1. Malcolm x's childhood was definatly rough. He had ten brothers and sisters  and his father was murdered. His father was an organiser for the marcus garvey negro association and believed that blacks would never find peace in America and that they should just go back to Africa and live a simple but happy and peaceful life. At the age of twelve he was put in a reform ...

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