Image of Malcolm X & His Assassination

The slain speaker was Malcolm X, and the assassins were Black Muslims. Though conspiracy theories implicating whites, some including the FBI, have continued to revolve around the events in the Audobon, no credible evidence for such conspiracies has ever been found. Whether the assassination was ordered by the Black Muslim leadership also remains unproven, though there is strong reason for suspecting that this was the case (Perry, 1991, pp. 370-74).

Many other black leaders were to be gunned down in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, from Martin Luther King, assassinated by a white supremacist (again with unproven allegations of conspiracy), to militant Black Panthers gunned down by police. Among these, Malcolm X might appear to be a somewhat unlikely figure to have been taken up by the African-American community as its leading martyr figure of the age. He was, after all, killed not by white racists or a white authority structure, b

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independent state (Perry, 1991, p. 3). Thus, a strong element of black nationalism was present in Malcolm's family background. Little in the first half of his life, however, indicated how deeply those ideas might have taken root. His formal education ended with the eighth grade. Like many other rural African-Americans, he made his way to Harlem in his late teens. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s had ended with the Great Depression, but Harlem remained the cultural center of African-American life. Mainstream opportunities were limited for a young black man with limited education, but opportunities were open to a young black man of great native intelligence, if he were willing to skirt the edge of the law or go beyond it. Malcolm became a member of the Harlem demimonde, selling marijuana, engaging in petty burglaries, working the "numbers" (gambling) racket. His leisure was spent in the hip Harlem nightclub subculture: Shorty would take me to groovy, frantic scenes in different chicks' and cats' pads, where with the lights and the juke down mellow, everybody blew gage and juiced back and jumped. I met chicks who were as fine as May wine, and cats who were hip to all happenings. That paragraph is deliberate, of
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