Malcolm x and the black panthers biography
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Malcolm X
American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
This article is about the person. For other uses, see Malcolm X (disambiguation).
"Malcolm Little" and "Malik Shabazz" redirect here. For other uses, see Malcolm Little (disambiguation) and Malik Shabazz (disambiguation).
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| Born | Malcolm Little (1925-05-19)May 19, 1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | February 21, 1965(1965-02-21) (aged 39) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Assassination by gunshots |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery |
| Other names | Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: مَالِك ٱلشَّبَازّ, romanized: Mālik ash-Shabāzz) Omowale (Yoruba: Omowale, lit. 'The son who has come back') |
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| Children | 6, including Attallah, Qubilah, and Ilyasah |
| Relatives | Louise Helen Norton Little (mother) Malcolm Shabazz (grandson)[1] |
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African Americanrevolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, h
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Written by: Peter C. Myers, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
By the end of this section, you will:
- Explain how and why various groups responded to calls for the expansion of civil rights from 1960 to 1980
On June 6, 1966, one day into his solitary “March Against Fear,” James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper in northwest Mississippi. Meredith, an Air Force veteran and the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, had planned to march from Memphis to Jackson to encourage voter registration by black citizens. As he recovered, prominent black leaders promised Meredith they would continue his march. Among them was Stokely Carmichael, the newly elected chair of SNCC, who aimed to steer the broader movement in a more militant direction. As the march carried on, Carmichael led a crowd at a June 16 rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, in a chant: “We want Black power!” Martin Luther King Jr. had objected, but with that outcry, a new faction of the black freedom movement was born.
Carmichael’s speech gave the faction a name and a new impetus for its organizational development, but he was neither Black Power’s true founder nor its most important formative influence. The crucial figure in the radicalizing of black p
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Black Panther Party
US political accommodate (1966–1982)
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For correspondingly named organisations, see Swarthy panther (disambiguation) § Political organisations.
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