The meaning of his public life - his politics and ideology - is contested in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is challenged. Kelley wrote, "Malcolm X has been called many things: Pan-Africanist, father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist, and a menace to society. Less than a year later, he was assassinated in Washington Heights on the first day of National Brotherhood Week. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam.Īfter leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he made the pilgrimage, the Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim.
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