Malcolm X info

Malcolm X info

Assassination
1. when leave NOI, FBI hear Elijah Muhammad ordered assassination
  1. 1964 - many attempts on life e.g. firebomb destroys home
  2. Feb 1965 - shot 15 times at close range
    1. 3 NOI men convicted
OAAU
1. Organisation of Afro-American Unity
2. set up after leaves NOI
  1. bad relationship with Elijah (jealous of x's attention) and X embarrasses NOI sometimes
3. want to re-educate black Americans - economic security
  1. voter reg campaigns, school boycotts, rent strikes for bad housing, drug addict programmes, make new textbooks, develop new teaching methods
4. see link between issue of white oppression and anti-colonial struggle in Africa
Early Life
1. Tragic
  1. Father murdered by white supremacists when young (involved in negro organisations)
    1. Mother - nervous breakdown (mixed race)
      1. sent children to foster homes
    2. BlackLegion (like KKK) torch home
    3. evidence by Black Legion but Milwaukee police deny
    4. family put in poverty
  2. Move to Boston when teen
    1. involved in crime after low-paid jobs
      1. imprisoned 1946 for 10 years
        joins Nation of Islam
        affected by its message
        changed lifestyle
        rejects name Litte and changes to X - name given to father by his owner
        after prison = very influential in NOI
        1952-53 = triple members in Detroit
        1957-59 = number of temples = 27-49
    2. drop out of school even though great student - teacher says his want to be a lawyer
      1. = 'no realistic goal for a nigger'
  3. 3 uncles murdered by whites
MLK Criticisms
1. Malcolm X critical of him and civil rights movement for 3 reasons
  1. 1) organisations like NAACP taken in by US myths and trust US system
    1. so never set black people free
2. said MLK was paid by government to promote christian love/forgiveness
  1. means can't effectively fight for rights
    1. Malcolm promotes self-defence and gun ownership
      1. says more powerful than peaceful protest - makes look weak
3. says aim of integration = wrong
  1. would lead to new oppression
    1. formatin of black lower class
Nation of Islam
1. Organisation
  1. Founded 1930
    1. by Wallace Fard Muhammad
      1. disappear 1934
        Elijah Muhammad takes over
        says work hard, stay pure
        so not seduced by drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, coffee, pork, jazz, blues, gambling, prostitution, cinema
        forms of black enslavement
        result in self-improvement
        have dignity in this
2. Teaching
  1. black people created by Allah
    1. White people created by evil scientist Yacub
      1. incapable of goodness
        but over time enslave all that are not white
  2. black supremacism
    1. superiority
3. want Black Separatism
  1. black people = only be free when living completely separate
    1. Malcolm X agrees
    2. self-governing all-black state
      1. North America
  2. this should be a CHOICE
4. appealing
  1. young black working class men in northern cities
    1. try escape drugs, prostitution, gambling
      1. self-discipline
  2. black ex-convicts
    1. 90% members at NY's Temple Number Seven have records
      1. almost none re-offend
        'clean yourself up, stand up and do something for yourself'
        inspiration
Black Nationalism
1. MLK wants American nationalism
  1. X doesn't agree, says American values based on white supremacism
    1. alternative
2. means 2 things
  1. political
    1. self-governing
  2. economic
    1. control economy in community

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