Malcolm X Achievements, Author Biography, Trivia, and Movies

Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. Malcolm X's father died—killed by white supremacists, it was rumored—when he...
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quick facts

Birthdate:	May 19, 1925
Birthplace:	North Omaha, Nebraska
Date of death:	February 21, 1965
Religion:	Islam, Sunni Islam
Also known as:	Malcolm X, Malcolm X, מלקולם אקס

Written works by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By any means necessary
speeches of Malcolm X
end of white world supremacy

Title	Published	Genre
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	1965	Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X		Biography
By any means necessary
speeches of Malcolm X
end of white world supremacy
Afro-American History
The Jackie Robinson Reader
Malcolm X Speaks
Le pouvoir noir
Selvbiografi
schwarze Tribun
Malcolm A to X
February 1965
Two speeches by Malcolm X
Prophetic Voice of Malcolm X
The black book of Malcolm X
By any means necessary
Malcolm X talks to young people
The speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard

Malcolm X quotes

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
- Malcolm X
Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
- Malcolm X
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
- Malcolm X
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
- Malcolm X

Places Malcolm X has lived

Marker	Location	Date Arrived	Population
A	Milwaukee	1926	594,833
B	Omaha	1925	408,958
C	Boston		617,594
D	Lansing		114,297
E	Manhattan		1,586,698
F	Queens		2,233,841

Books about Malcolm X

Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (part 4) The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Copyright date:February 2012

Author:Aberjhani

People who influenced Malcolm X

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. Fanon is known as a radical existential humanist thinker on the issue of decolonization and the...
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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League . He...
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Personal relationships of Malcolm X

Betty Shabazz

Lived:May 28, 1934 - June 23, 1997

Relationship type:Marriage

Together:January 14, 1958 - February 21, 1965

Betty Shabazz , born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in...
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