Remember Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

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Released from prison in 1952 at twenty-seven years of age, Malcolm went to Detroit and worked as a furniture salesman with his older brother Wilfred. A few weeks later he went to Chicago to hear and meet [Elijah Muhammad], leader of The Nation of Islam. He went back to Detroit as an assistant minister of a mosque having been given his X by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and renamed Malcolm X. A year later Elijah Muhammad brought Malcolm X to his home in Chicago, to live, so that he could personally train him. Malcolm X proved himself by establishing a mosque in rough white nationalist Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1954, before his thirtieth birthday, Minister Malcolm X became head of the movement in Harlem. During the summer of that year, this writer first met Malcolm X, who would always be known to us in the neighborhood as "Brother Malcolm!"

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Remember Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

He was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was an African American preacher and an area leader of the Marcus Garvey Movement, and his mother was a mulatto from the island of Grenada, in the West Indies, ...

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