... news agencies, 20 TV companies and 1,000 correspondents covered the trial at the world's entertainment capital. T-shirts and bumper stickers were sold outside the courthouse, and bus trips provided guided tours of the murder scene. Hauptmann's trial would not have attracted the attention it did if the child who was kidnapped and later found dead was not the son of a national ... ...

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... , Elijah Muhammad. He changed his last name to "X," a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their family names to have originated from white slaveholders. Malcolm X was sent on speaking tours around the country and soon became the most effective speaker and organiser for the Nation of Islam. He founded many new mosques and greatly increased the movement's membership. In 1961 ... ...

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