Malcom X

Little, it seems a contradiction of terms for such a giant of a man, a man I never took the time to understand. In seventh grade black students at my school began wearing t-shirts with “Malcom and Martin” printed on them, I did not know who Malcom was. My African-American band director held the entire band over the bell one day to give us a lecture on Malcom X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., telling the students wearing those shirts that Malcom and Martin had nothing in common, and to wear such attire was a disgrace to the glorious legacy of Dr. King. I went to the library to find out who Malcom X was. Encyclopedias told me he was an Ameri

I was heartbroken at the rift that formed between Elijah Muhammad and Malcom X, concerned about what he would do to survive, how he would handle the separation. I felt moved when he traveled to Mecca, to discover the true origins of Islam, touched by the help and kindness he received. I was overjoyed when he discovered for himself that there could be such a thing as a sincere white skinned person. I cried in the end when he died, shot down doing the work that he loved so much, heartbroken for his family and his cause, knowing there was no one strong enough to carry it on.

The actions taken by the Nation of Islam against Malcom clearly show that something else was going on behind the scenes that Malcom was not fully aware of, or if he knew, he did not share these problems with Alex Haley when Haley was writing his autobiography. I do not fully understand why Elijah Muhammad allowed such politics to enter the Nation of Islam. It appeared from the reading that Mr. Muhammad truly cared for Malcom and his mission in building the Muslim religion. As I have not done extensive research on the Nation of Islam in America or Elijah Muhammad, I am not aware of the outcome of this investigation, from my standpoint it was extremely inconsistent with other actions taken.

Malcom Little was one of six children who grew up in various houses in the northern part of the country. His mother, a woman who could pass for white, stayed at home with the children while her husband, Earl, went around preaching the word of Marcus Garvey. Growing up in Michigan, where his family moved after he was born, was an experience for Malcom. His father as a follower of Marcus Garvey was constantly a target for white supremacist that wanted to suppress the black man in America. While his mother was pregnant with Malcom, the Ku Klux Klan smashed the windows of their house in Nebraska. After moving to Lansing, right after the sixth child was born, their house burned to the ground one night with the entire family inside, the fire was started by people who wanted Earl Little out of town. All of them made it out safely.

After the shoe shine job outgrew Malcom, he went to work for the railroad during World War II, this job landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. He meet gangsters and hustlers who would be key players in the future for him. Eventually he moved to Harlem away from his sister in Boston.

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