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This paper discusses civil rights leader Malcolm X, his fight for black nationalism and his support of socialism. The paper seeks to prove that despite his "pre-Mecca" and "post-Mecca" phases, Malcolm was a staunch defender of the idea of black nationalism and socialism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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great deal of controversy with his speeches, writings and philosophies. To those who remember his passionate, fiery speeches about the lot of a black man, he was the quintessential black
nationalist, the one who would move short of murder in order to ensure that black Americans could forge their own identity, rather than rely on the identity of the white
man. However, to those who remember the Malcolm X directly before his death, this was a man who preached brotherhood while focusing on anti-imperialism. His focus toward the black community
taking strides to better itself did not, however, change, even if his move from narrow-minded Islam to an Islam who adopted a more tolerant viewpoint did.
Although Malcolm X was the most vocal about his desire to make the world a better place for blacks, his talk of violence, and later,
his discussion about socialism, was not. This paper will attempt to examine Malcolm X and his relationship with the Nation of Islam, the black nationalists and socialism. Also in this
paper will be examples of how some grass roots movements today tend to ignore the bigger connections between socialism and the struggle of the oppressed. Many of the movements today,
particularly those with tacit Middle East support, espouse many of the principles put forth in Malcolms philosophies, writings, speeches and interviews. Malcolm and the Nation of Islam
Malcolms background is something that is still somewhat of a controversy, but the one thing that converted him from a juvenile delinquent was prison. When
he was sentenced to Charlestown State Prison in 1946 for burglary, he was exposed to the Nation of Islam, a black separatist religious sect that recruited heavily in prisons (Dreyfuss
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