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X Family Letters Magazine Download Links' title='X Family Letters Magazine Download Links' />OZ magazine, London, 19671973. OZ 2 March 1967. Richard Neville. Editor Richard Neville. Business Manager Peter Ledeboer. X Family Letters Magazine Download Links' title='X Family Letters Magazine Download Links' />Cause of death. Assassination multiple gunshotsResting place. Ferncliff Cemetery. Other namesel Hajj Malik el Shabazz Occupation. Minister, activist. Organization. Nation of Islam,Muslim Mosque, Inc. Organization of Afro American Unity. Movement. Black nationalism,Pan Africanism. SpousesBetty Shabazz m. Children. Attallah Shabazz. Qubilah Shabazz. Ilyasah Shabazz. Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz. Malikah Shabazz. Malaak Shabazz. ParentsEarl Little. Louise Helen Norton Little. Signature. Malcolm X 1. 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 detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. His father was killed when he was six and his mother was placed in a mental hospital when he was thirteen, after which he lived in a series of foster homes. In 1. 94. 6, at age twenty, he went to prison for larceny and breaking and entering. While in prison, he became a member of the Nation of Islam NOI, changing his birth name Malcolm Little to Malcolm X because he later wrote Little was the name that the white slavemaster . After his parole in 1. In his autobiography, Malcolm X wrote proudly of some of the social achievements the Nation made while he was a member, particularly its free drug rehabilitation program. The Nation promoted black supremacy, advocated the separation of black and white Americans, and rejected the civil rights movement for its emphasis on integration. By March 1. 96. 4, Malcolm X had grown disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad. Expressing many regrets about his time with them, which he had come to regard as largely wasted, he embraced Sunni Islam. After a period of travel in Africa and the Middle East, which included completing the Hajj, he also became known as el Hajj Malik el Shabazz. AB He repudiated the Nation of Islam, disavowed racism and founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. Organization of Afro American Unity. He continued to emphasize Pan Africanism, black self determination, and black self defense. On February 2. 1, 1. Nation of Islam. Early years. United States Census return listing the Little family lines 5. Malcolm Little was born May 1. Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of Grenada born Louise Helen Little ne Norton and Georgia born Earl Little. Earl was an outspoken Baptistlay speaker, and he and Louise were admirers of Pan African activist Marcus Garvey. Earl was a local leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA and Louise served as secretary and branch reporter, sending news of local UNIA activities to Negro World they inculcated self reliance and black pride in their children. Malcolm X later said that white violence killed three of his fathers brothers. Because of Ku Klux Klan threatsEarls UNIA activities were spreading trouble6the family relocated in 1. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and shortly thereafter to Lansing, Michigan. There the family was frequently harassed by the Black Legion, a white racist group. When the family home burned in 1. Earl accused the Black Legion. When Little was six, his father died in what was officially ruled a streetcar accident, though his mother Louise believed Earl had been murdered by the Black Legion. Rumors that white racists were responsible for his fathers death were widely circulated, and were very disturbing to Malcolm X as a child. As an adult, he expressed conflicting beliefs on the question. After a dispute with creditors, Louise received a life insurance benefit nominally 1,0. C in payments of 1. Earl had committed suicide. To make ends meet Louise rented out part of her garden, and her sons hunted game. In 1. 93. 7 a man Louise had been datingmarriage had seemed a possibilityvanished from her life when she became pregnant with his child. In late 1. 93. 8 she had a nervous breakdown and was committed to Kalamazoo State Hospital. The children were separated and sent to foster homes. Malcolm and his siblings secured her release 2. Malcolm Little excelled in junior high school but dropped out after a white teacher told him that practicing law, his aspiration at the time, was no realistic goal for a nigger. Later Malcolm X recalled feeling that the white world offered no place for a career oriented black man, regardless of talent. From age 1. 4 to 2. Little held a variety of jobs while living with his half sister Ella Little Collins in Roxbury, a largely African American neighborhood of Boston. After a short time in Flint, Michigan, he moved to New York Citys Harlem neighborhood in 1. According to recent biographies, he also occasionally had sex with other men, usually for money. D Malcolm X was referred to as Detroit Red because of the reddish hair he inherited from his Scots maternal grandfather. Little was declared mentally disqualified for military service after he told draft board officials he wanted to be sent down south to organize them nigger soldiers steal us some guns, and kill us some crackers. In late 1. 94. 5, Little returned to Boston, where he and four accomplices committed a series of burglaries targeting wealthy white families. In 1. 94. 6, he was arrested while picking up a stolen watch he had left at a shop for repairs,3. February began serving an eight to ten year sentence at Charlestown State Prison for larceny and breaking and entering. Nation of Islam period. Prison. Between Mr. Muhammads teachings, my correspondence, my visitors . In fact, up to then, I had never been so truly free in my life. Malcolm X3. When Little was in prison, he met fellow convict John Bembry,3. I had ever seen command total respect with words. Under Bembrys influence, Little developed a voracious appetite for reading. At this time, several of his siblings wrote to him about the Nation of Islam, a relatively new religious movement preaching black self reliance and, ultimately, the return of the African diaspora to Africa, where they would be free from white American and European domination. He showed scant interest at first, but after his brother Reginald wrote in 1. Malcolm, dont eat any more pork and dont smoke any more cigarettes. Ill show you how to get out of prison,3. After a visit in which Reginald described the groups teachings, including the belief that white people are devils, Little concluded that every relationship hed had with whites had been tainted by dishonesty, injustice, greed, and hatred. Little, whose hostility to religion had earned him the prison nickname Satan,4. Nation of Islam. 4. In late 1. 94. 8, Little wrote to Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad advised him to renounce his past, humbly bow in prayer to Allah, and promise never to engage in destructive behavior again. Though he later recalled the inner struggle he had before bending his knees to pray,4. Little soon became a member of the Nation of Islam,4. Muhammad. 4. 6In 1.