Malcolm X
•Became the leader of the black Muslims in the USA
•Blacks rejected Christianity as a ‘white’ religion
•He had contempt for those who followed Martin Luther King’s pacifist methods
•He believed blacks needed to protest with force
•Assassinated in 1965, possibly because of his disputes with the black Muslim Movement
•Blacks rejected Christianity as a ‘white’ religion
•He had contempt for those who followed Martin Luther King’s pacifist methods
•He believed blacks needed to protest with force
•Assassinated in 1965, possibly because of his disputes with the black Muslim Movement
question
Did Malcolm X ultimately bring about positive change?
summary
was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.