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This shift in perspective also marked his ultimate departure from the NOI, with whom Malcolm was already disillusioned due to Elijah Muhammads' adulterous conduct.

Legacy of Courage and Power

Rumors that Malcolm was the target of assassination began after his tensions with the NOI escalated. I am not a racist, and I do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism.

Malcolm X’s early experiences in a racially charged environment would later shape his activism.

2. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.

Malcolm was our manhood, our living, black manhood! The emotional rage he expressed was a reaction to racism in its urban context: segregated urban schools, substandard housing, high infant mortality rates, drugs, and crime.

Malcolm’s charisma, intelligence, and drive saw him quickly rise within the NOI and obtain the eventual appointment as its national spokesman.

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It also left a void in the struggle for racial equality, as Malcolm X was widely regarded as a passionate and influential advocate for African American rights.

12. Legacy continues to inspire civil rights movements worldwide

Malcolm X’s legacy extends far beyond his untimely death.

A structure, a house that has ruled the world up until now.

it doesn’t use the color of a man’s skin to measure him…. We are collecting suggestions for the next series of NHCJE Icons. Yet nearly none of them had earned marks equal to mine…. During a speaking engagement organized by the OAAU, three members of the Nation of Islam—Thomas Hagan, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson—approached the stage and opened fire on Malcolm X.

He was struck multiple times and pronounced dead shortly after arrival at the hospital.

Earl Little’s body was found on the streetcar tracks in Lansing, Michigan. Marable eloquently illuminates Malcolm’s often provocative stance on violence in his biography: “So the view that there were ‘two Malcolm Xs’ – one who advocated violence when he was a Black Muslim, and a second who espoused nonviolent change – is absolutely wrong.

I’m against racists.”

In his Autobiography, Malcolm further condemns racism: “…to me the earth’s most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God’s creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.”

Malcolm’s desire to see the venomous politic of black-white racism in America destroyed was transformed  into the desire to eliminate all of its manifestations:

Malcolm’s revolutionary vision also challenged white America to think and talk differently about race….

At this time, Malcolm changed his last name to "X" to symbolize shedding his "slave name" and honoring his original African name, lost through slavery. The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned down to the ground.

When the state welfare people began coming to our house…[t]hey acted and looked at [my mother], and at us, and around in our house, in a way that had about it the feeling – at least for me – that we were not people.