Malcolm
X was Born on 19th of May, 1925 under the name of Malcolm Little, and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
His father Earn Little was strongly involved in the
African community rights defense.
As a result Malcolm’s family has been the
target of several racist attacks among which one ended by the death of Earn
Little.
Malcolm was however a very good student until one of his teacher told
him that he would never become a lawyer because of his African origins.
Frustrated, he began to sink into the
crime organization until he got arrested and sentenced 10 years for armed
robbery.
During his time in jail Malcolm converted to the Nation of Islam a
organization spreading strong anti-white values and defending the African
people as the orginal people and the white as devils.
Malcolm shortly became one of the most influent spokesmen
of the organization until he left in 1954 after a discord with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the
Nation of Islam.
After that he created his own organization and got
involved into politic giving him the opportunity to meet great leaders such as
Fidel Castro or Martin Luther King.
However even though he got growing admiration from the African community it was in proportion with growing hatred both from the Nation of Islam and from the white nationalist people.
That situation ended by his murder on the 21st
of February, 1965 as he began a talk in New York.
His controversial vision about the supremacy of the
black people clearly contributed in the rise of self-confidence of the Afro
American community even though detractors considered he was not helping improving
relationships between races.
However in the period before his death, he had
began to question his initial vision into a new one more tolerant aiming to
fight any kind of racism. In this new own enterprise he could really demonstrate his quality of leader by being his own master and not listening to a superior entity.
