... the Montgomery bus boycott. The successful protest, which lasted a year, marked the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence as a civil-rights leader. In 1957 Parks moved to Detroit, where she remained active in the civil-rights movement. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest honor. Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman and civil-rights ... assassinated. The exact circumstances around his death remain a mystery. Elijah Muhammad il American black nationalist leader, Elijah Muhammad became a follower of Wali Farad, who had establ...

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... age of 15 while he was only in the eighth grade. (Malcolm X biography). After Malcolm dropped out of school, Malcolm was headed for a life of crime. He became known as Detroit Red. During this life of crime, Malcolm was sentenced to prison for burglary. While Malcolm was in prison he encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad was the leader ... ...

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... first section of quotes is from articles and speeches he has made through the years of 1963-1965. Many coming from the "Message to the Grass Roots" speech made in Detroit in November 1965. There are also miscellaneous quotes that have been collected through out his lifetime and quotes about Malcolm X from his widow, Betty Shabazz and civil rights legend Dr ... ...

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... spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the black Muslims, who advocated racial separation. When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a Black Muslim temple in Detroit and became the most prominent spokesperson for the Nation of Islam by the early 1960's. It was then that he took the name of Malcolm X. Ultimately he became a towering icon ... ...

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... , nor can they be alone with any man other than their husbands. The Original Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 by Wallace Dodd Fard (Wali Farad0, a silk salesman, in Detroit, Michigan. He formed an organization that accepted only blacks and taught the "true religion" was Islam--religion of a black man; from Asia and Africa; Asiatic is what some of them ... ...

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... for armed robbery. While in prison Malcolm converted to the Nation of Islam and later changed his name to Malcolm X and became the Assistant Minister of the Nation of Islam's Detroit Temple. In 1963 the Nation of Islam orders Malcolm X to be silent concerning President Kennedy's assassination. This led him to start his own Organization, which was Muslim Mosque and also ... ...

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