Malcolm X

By: Matthew Winslow-Duehr

facts

• Malcolm X wanted racial unity• He was born on May 19,1925 in Omaha

Nebraska and was the 7th of 11 kids• Just before he was born masked riders said

they should get out of town• When he was 4, whites burned his house• When Malcolm was 6 his father was killed his

mother had a nervous brake down and his family was split

facts

• He believed that the whites were to blame for the separating of his family

• He wanted to be a lawyer but because he was black he had to be a carpenter instead so he left at 8th grade

• In 1942 he moved to the black side of New York where he cheated to make money

• He moved to Boston where he made a burglar ring

facts

• In 1946 he was taken to prison• While he was in prison he learned Islam• He changed his last name in prison from Little

to x• He learned Islam in prison from a group called

The Nation of Islam who believed the whites were devils

• He started many Muslim groups in the U.S

facts

• In 1954 he went back to New York to be a minister of a important temple

• In 1957 he made a Muslim newspaper called Mohamed speaks

• In 1960s he was the best Muslim minister• In 1939 he got suspended from the group• In 1964 he left the group completely• He made his own group called the Organization

of Afro American Unity or OAAU

facts• In the winter of 1964-1965 he received death

threats and his house was bombed• While giving a speech in February 1965 he was

shot and killed• Sources:• "Malcolm X." Compton's by Britannica.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 13 Dec. 2012.<http://www.school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-9275635>.