Malcolm X's Legacy from the Ghetto to Activist

Malcolm X, was a civil rights activist, who convinced people that it was inalienable that they control their own destiny. In order to control my own destiny, I fight for success by any means necessary. Success will stimulate me to fight the challenges throughout life and push me to become successful. However, throughout life I often get caught trying to escape failure by avoiding it. During Malcolm’s time, many people were eager, desirous, and ambitious when it came to their rights. This describes one's longing for a goal and in order to be successful you have to achieve your goals. Therefore, I use success to help me achieve those goals by any means necessary.

Malcolm X, Malcolm Little or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, are all different names to one heroic figure. No two people can differ on the impact that Malcolm X has left, not only on the African-American society, but also on the world as a whole. Born in Omaha, Nebraska USA in May 19, 1925 Malcolm X ideologies in life and philosophy were really a result of several life events that he struggled with and experienced while growing up. Between loosing his parents, being bullied in school and finally having Prison sentence, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz decided that some changes should be arranged in the society’s function. Starting from there, he became a man with a message and a mission. Malcolm X was seeking a change, a step forward and a ray of light. After going through a lot in his life, Malcolm X was detriment to be the burning candle that illuminates the roads for others. Almost 50 years later since his death, a lot of people still look up to him as a spiritual leader and still consider him an icon when it comes to civil and human rights movements. Today, in a world that is moving in the path of equality and unity, we can only think of those who built the early stages of this ground we all stand equally tall above. Thanks to influential people like Malcolm X, we can today see the impotency and the growth of the seeds he grew back in his days. In spite of the fact that he is a well-respected and loved man, there is still a group of people (23%) who thinks Malcolm X should not be

Malcolm X was a public leader during the time of the civil rights movement. Malcolm was a public voice of the Black Muslim faith, he challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the non-violent pursuit lead by Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm wanted followers to defend themselves against the white aggression and he said to “by any means necessary”. He was born with the name Malcolm Little, and he changed his last name to X to show his rejection of his “slave” name. Malcolm became an influential leader of the Nation of Islam, which combined Islam with black nationalism which was placed to encourage young blacks to fight for equal rights. Malcolm was a determined leader and he was willing to take any means necessary to achieve equal rights for black Americans, but unlike King’s peaceful approach Malcolm wanted to take a violent approach and without King he may have been the head of the movement causing black Americans to all take a violent approach. A violent approach may not have worked well and would

He started out doing well in school, despite all the humiliation he went through because he was black. As he grew older, however, he turned to crime in order to get back at whites for the pain they caused him in the past. After a burglary incident, he was arrested and converted to Islam in prison. He educated and taught himself about the religion so that once he was released from prison, he could tell other people about the new person he became as a result of his conversion. Although he did incorporate his religious views into his speeches, his main focus was equal rights for blacks. He also spoke of the ways that white people deceived blacks into their ways of life, how blacks are controlled by the evil white man. He worked toward making his audience realize that they were mindlessly following whatever the whites followed. He says, “...[Elijah Muhammad] teaches us the importance of moral reformation, a knowledge of self”(Black Central). The leader of the Nation of Islam caught sight of Malcolm’s works and made him the official spokesperson for black Muslims. He was extremely involved with all of Elijah Muhammad’s works and teachings from playing this role. However, some dealings with the Nation of Islam and especially Elijah Muhammad caused Malcolm to depart from his religion. He had found that Elijah was lying to him and tried to have him killed, and

Malcolm X, one of the most influential leaders in the Black community, transformed American values with his unfiltered statements and his determination for Black liberty and power. However, his controversial solutions concerned many, as he expressed comments that seemed intimidating, twisted, and somewhat vengeful, even though he contained honest intentions within his heart. He held many violent undertones in which made the white-folk very uncomfortable. In addition, his words caused the violent rebellions and delegitimized Martin Luther King’s non-violent resistance as a philosophy for the fool. People had claimed he was a racial segregationist, as he believed in all whites to be “devils.” He was asked questions like did he advocate violent methods to obtain liberty for blacks, as he supported Africans Rifle Clubs, and he inspired many clubs for creating violent Clubs. As Malcolm once said, “There is no such thing as a non-violent revolution.” In contrast, Malcolm denied these allegations of promoting violence, and his point of view shows the reason how and why the blacks had reacted in that manner. Later, however, Malcolm X did follow the “Honorable Elijah Mohammed,” and had always followed and believed in him. He followed the doctrines of how whites was “inherently” evil,” and could not enter Mecca, due to their skin color. Not only had that he criticized all whites for the problem of the blacks. He also called the whites on their guilty nature, so justifying the

When those of us are asked to think of the legacy of a man, who confronted the issues at hand and pointed the fingers at the root and the existence of the problem, we think of Malcolm X. You begin to think of the powerful speeches and the passionate remarks made about the pressing issues that were at hand and you

During his imprisonment, Malcolm used the time to further his education. Sometimes Malcolm’s Brother Reginald would visit him and talk to him about his conversion to Islam. Malcolm also studied the teaching of the NOI’s (Nation of Islam) current leader at the time, Elijah Muhammad while in prison. Malcolm learned from Muhammad how the whites were holding the African Americans back from gaining success and letting them empower themselves. Once Malcolm was paroled from prison he changed his surname from “Little” to “X” because it was believed that

For my Analytical term paper I will be writing about the famous figure Malcolm X, who had a great influence on the black revolution. I will start my paper with a brief bibliography about the history of Malcolm X before he was known for his influence on the black revolution. Malcolm X was born on May 19th, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. As a child Malcolm X wasn’t like many other famous individuals who had high school diplomas or a PHD. Malcolm X dropped out of school and moved to Boston where he became known as a hoodlum. At a young age Malcolm was taught that as a black man there was little that he had going for him. His time in Boston fell into a life of drugs and crime. In 1946 Malcolm X was arrested and charged for larceny, he was sentenced

His childhood was infected with racial malice, including terrorism of his mother by the Ku Klux Klan (X, 1964), and the violent murder of his father. Whilst Earl Littler (Malcolm’s father) was alive, he preached the word of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political leader who held firm Black Nationalist beliefs. After the death of Little, his family’s financial situation suffered. When X was 15 he moved to Boston to live with his half-sister, where he became involved in the city’s criminal underground, and took part in the drug industry. Over the next six years he travelled between Boston and New York, spent his time in night clubs, donning fancy suits and turning fully to crime to fund the luxurious lifestyle, until 1946, when he was arrested for larceny. He served a 10-year sentence, in which he read profusely in an effort to compromise for his lost education, and converted to the Nation of Islam. In 1956, when he was released, he dedicated the next seven years to the sexist, antisemitic and homophobic institution, before separating from it in 1963 after becoming aware of the leader, Elijah Muhammad’s various out-of-wedlock affairs and children. Contextualised with Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent pacifistic members of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X is not an individual to be idolised. #And# yet, New York Times journalist

Malcolm X was a determined activist, a man who fought for what he believed in. He left a strong impression on the hearts of millions. His actions not only motivated others but also urged them to believe in the same ideologies as his. Despite of his struggle with poverty, personal conflicts and his beliefs he followed his dreams of aiding the society and raising their self-esteem.

Malcolm X was a muslim, black man who cared very much about gaining equal rights. He was, in a way, an extremist. Though only taking action when he felt necessary, when he did take action, it often had drastic effects on the people and events occurring around him. Unlike Martin Luther King or other leading civil rights activists, he did not believe in peaceful protest. He believed in “whatever means necessary” to accomplish his goals. Because of his strong efforts and his unmatched determination, Malcolm X, formally known as Malcolm Little, changed the course of the civil rights movement. If not for him, the events that played out to cause the eventual conclusion of the struggle would have been forever altered.

Malcolm Little better known as Malcolm X was born on May 19th, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska to J. Early Little and M. Louise Norton. When Malcolm was sent to jail for a theft in 1946, he converted to the Black Muslim faith and decided to change his name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. Upon his release 1952 he met with the Nation of Islam leader, Elijah Muhammad, who sent him on speaking tours to promote the nations separatist views, which included the use of violence for self-protection. Malcolm X’s increased popularity set him at odds with Muhammad, who made the decision to suspend him from the movement in 1964. Malcolm responded to this decision by creating the Organization of Afro-American Unity and embarking on a pilgrimage to Mecca, after

On February 21 1965, Malcolm was in the midst of administering a speech for his recently founded group the Organization for the African American unity (OAAU) in the Audobon Ballroom (New York City), when Malcolm X was shot 15 times while delivering his speech. At just the age of 39, the death sparked a controversy not only within the Nation of Islam but all over America. Malcolm X was still in his height of his influential power when he was killed, by three people who were later confirmed to be three members of the Nation of Islam; Norman Butler, Thomas Johnson. Even in death nothing could stop the impact and the legacy that immortalize Malcolm X and kept the Civil Right movement going, and brought an increase in African American activist that

Since the beginning of American history their has been iconic people and groups that has stood out through their voice, actions, and philosophies to challenge the way others based upon the events and ways other people acted. In the late 1950's and early 1960's, Malcolm X was one of those many people that exemplified a challenge to the government system. His opposed views about Western nations, was that America was founded and born on the system of racism, and that black people must unite to create their own society built with values that will progress the black communities. Such philosophy was influenced and supported by black nationalist and black separatists movements like that of the Marcus Garvey, Nation of Islam, and then after the Black Panthers.

Not to mention, Malcolm X was very charismatic and the one to get his point across. Malcolm always made himself clear in his speeches regardless if it was offensive or not. He strived to be revolutionary, fight to win equality for all oppressed minorities. Malcolm X rose quickly in the NOI, becoming the minister of NOI’s Temple Seven in Harlem in June of 1954. Malcolm X simultaneously was becoming an accomplished journalist; he wrote for several publications before he founded the NOI's newspaper, Muhammad Speaks. Malcolm X’s new found fame also attracted the attention of the FBI, which soon began tapping his phone, concerned that some kind of racially based revolution was brewing. While the FBI was concerned, Malcolm X had a meeting with Fidel Castro; which only heightened the fears people had for a revolution.