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This paper examines the childhood and adulthood of civil rights leader Malcolm X, and delves into the factors in his childhood and young adulthood that led him from a minister of the Nation of Islam to fighting on behalf of integration. Bibilography lists 4 sources.
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black nation in Africa, Malcolm X, a minister of the Nation of Islam, was a fearsome presence among the white population and middle- and upper-class black populations of America. Malcolms
words were not meant to soothe - they were reactionary and dangerous. Ironically enough, however, it was when he broke from the Nation of Islam and began preaching a more
subdued message of peace between people of all skin colors, he was assassinated for his beliefs. Malcolm Xs life is filled with contradictions, however, decades after his death, he is
remembered as someone who tried to do some good, but for most of his life, in a misguided and violent way. When one examines his life, one can see the
reason for this. Born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb., there is a wide disparity between the childhood described by Malcolm in
his book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and that of a biography entitled Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America about Malcolm X and published by Bruce
Perry in 1991 (Dreyfuss 133). According to Malcolm, the fourth of seven kids, his house was attacked by Ku Klux Klansmen, his father died under the wheels of streetcar, killed
by angry whites and the white social workers who farmed the children out to foster homes drove his mother to insanity (Dreyfuss 133). According to Perrys chronicle, however, Malcolms mother
denies that the Klan ever attacked the Little house, and father Earl was a criminal who may have fallen, by accident, under the streetcar (Dreyfuss 133).
What is known, however, is that Malcolm was born to Earl Little, a one-eyed Baptist preacher, who was a recruiter for Marcus Garvey, a black
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