Malcolm X

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May 19, 1925 – On this day, Malcolm X was born and the world was graced. 

Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his controversial advocacy for the rights of blacks; some consider him a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans, while others accused him of preaching racism and violence. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, he relocated to New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1943, after spending his teenage years in a series of foster homes following his father's murder and his mother's placement in a mental hospital. In New York, he engaged in several illicit activities and was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1946 for larceny and breaking and entering. In prison he joined the Nation of Islam—changing his name to Malcolm X because he later wrote, Little was the name that "the white slavemaster ... had imposed upon my paternal forebears"—and quickly became one of its most influential and visible leaders after his parole in 1952. 

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