December 1: Just a few days after President John F. Kennedy has been assassinated, Malcolm speaks at a Nation of Islam rally in New York and, in response to a question, describes the foul play that the United States has committed around the world and states that Kennedy's slaying is "a case of chickens coming home to roost.
Malcolm is also removed as the Nation's national representative and as minister of the Harlem Temple No. January Malcolm and his family spend a week at boxer Cassius Clay's Miami compound; Clay, though not yet a Muslim, seeks guidance as he prepares for a fight against Sonny Liston. After this visit, tensions increase between Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad.
Cassius Clay becomes a member of the Nation of Islam and is re-named Muhammad Ali at the Nation's annual convention; Malcolm is not invited. March: Suspended "indefinitely" by the Nation of Islam, Malcolm announces plans to form his own organization called "Muslim Mosque Incorporated.
Malcolm predicts that Black Muslim leaders will murder him because "I know where the bodies are buried. April: Malcolm delivers his famous election year "Ballot or the Bullet" speech, then leaves for a five-week tour of Egypt, Lebanon, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia, where he makes a pilgrimage to Mecca and receives a new Islamic name: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, as well as expresses a somewhat different attitude about race.
In Mecca, Malcolm writes, he witnessed "pilgrims of all colors from all parts of this earth displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood like I've never seen before. Summer-Fall: Although celebrated as a leader abroad, Malcolm finds himself under increased attack at home; the Nation of Islam begins eviction proceedings against him, his brother Philbert denounces him, and his life is threatened.
Malcolm retaliates by making repeated public reference to Elijah Muhammad's adultery. Malcolm also forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity OAAU , reflecting a growing political agenda, and spends nearly five months in Africa visiting heads of state and lobbying for his U.
Winter: Malcolm returns briefly to America, then flies to England to participate in a debate at Oxford University. Louise Little is finally released from the Michigan mental hospital. He flies to London the next day and is subsequently refused entry into France. In Alex Haley's words, "What I was seeing was a man who was valiant beyond belief, whose structural world was tottering, and he was trying to hold it together.
February Malcolm X is assassinated while speaking at an OAAU rally in Harlem; three members of the Nation of Islam are later convicted despite the fact that the assailant apprehended at the scene Talmadge Hayer insisted that his two co-defendants are innocent. Later that year, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is published, and Betty Shabazz, who was pregnant at the time of Malcolm's murder, gives birth to his last two daughters.
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The property she built on Broad Street in the original structure she purchased in was destroyed by a fire still bears her name and sits just over a block away from a monument to Confederate soldiers that was constructed in His father died in of a kidney disorder at the age of 30, just one month before the last of his seven kids was born. His grandmother, Bettie Bembry, died a year later of heart disease. She was just His mother, Eva, remarried in By , she and her husband had moved to New York, where she worked as a domestic.
But Eva died in at the age of By that time, the family was scattered throughout New York. The Great Depression, which began with the stock market crash in and lasted a decade, left a nation devastated. None in America suffered more than black people. Uncle Elton went into survival mode. He followed the family to New York, where he worked odd jobs at a barbershop and at a shoe repair shop in lower Manhattan as a bootblack he shined shoes.
In , he began a long stretch of unemployment, making occasional money in card games in New York. His criminal history began in August , when he was arrested for vagrancy in New Rochelle, New York.
He was loitering in a business district during the early morning hours, which earned him a suspended sentence and an order to leave the city. With no job, no home and a scattered family, Uncle Elton began a journey to the West Coast, an eight-year stretch where he picked up a few odd jobs along the way, as well as earning an FBI file number while being arrested 13 times in 11 different states. The first offense that earned him serious time behind bars came in when he was charged with two counts of grand theft after snatching two purses near the Koreatown section of Los Angeles.
That resulted in a prison sentence of between one to 10 years in San Quentin. He served just over three years before his release on May 26, I had never seen a picture of him as a young man.
His arrest in West Springfield, Massachusetts, earned him historical and cultural significance.
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