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Minister and human rights activist · 1925–1965 · Civil Rights

Went from prison self-education to the Nation of Islam’s sharpest voice, then broke with it after Mecca and was assassinated a year later.

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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

attributed to Malcolm X

Who Malcolm X was

Malcolm Little's father died violently when he was six, his mother was committed, and he drifted into crime in Boston and Harlem. In prison he copied out a dictionary page by page and joined the Nation of Islam. As Malcolm X he built its membership from hundreds into the tens of thousands and argued, against the mainstream civil rights movement, for self-defence, Black economic independence and human rights rather than civil rights. He left the Nation in 1964 after learning of Elijah Muhammad's conduct, made the hajj to Mecca, and came back describing white Muslims he had prayed beside and revising his position on race. He was shot dead in Harlem in February 1965.

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What did copying out a dictionary do for you?

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What changed in Mecca?

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Where did you and Dr King really disagree?

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What does self-defence mean in practice?

You can put that to the Malcolm X persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Malcolm X’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1925–1965, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.

What did you want the last year of your life to build?

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Is this really Malcolm X?

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