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By:
Meghan Lawlor, Maria
Richart, Daniel Amuedo, Elle
Aronson, Sydney Driscoll, and
Abbi Kramer
Malcolm X’s Childhood
 was
born on May 19,1925, in Omaha,
Nebraska
 got threats from people
 eventually his house was burned
down
 father died in a supposed car
accident
 mother went crazy without father,
putting all of her seven children in
juvenile homes
 turned to a life of crime with nobody
to teach him right from wrong
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Life in Prison
 read
and copied words from the
dictionary
 was interested in learning how to read
and write
 borrowed tablets and dictionaries from
the prison
 Bimbi inspired him to learn because he
was jealous of his knowledge
 embraced the Black Muslim faith
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Violent Protesting
 made
speeches convincing
people to support his idea of nonintegration and black power
 felt that King had “not a dream
but a nightmare and he [MLK]
was too dumb to know it”.
 believed that violence was a
good way to protect people of
non-fairness
examiner.com
 Up
to 1964 was a member and leader of
Nation of Islam
 After visiting North Africa and the middle
East, was inspired to lead peaceful
protests
 Views change
http://africawithin.com
/malcolmx/malcolm_bi
o.htm
Assassination
 preparing
to make a speech
 tried to calm the people
 shot him in the chest with a shotgun
 had 21 gunshot wounds, ten of them from
the initial shotgun
 assassinated February 21, 1965
 buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale,
New York
findagrave.com
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h?v=gRSgUTWffMQ&feature=yo
utu.be
Citations
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Applebee, N., Arthur. Literature and Language. Boston:
McDougal Littell, 1994. 472-475. Print.
Simkin, John. "Malcolm X:Biography." Spartacus
Educational. Spartacus Educational , n.d. Web. 15 Feb
2012<http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmalcolmX.
htm>
"Malcolm X (1925-1965)." PBS Online . American Experience,
5.19.05. Web. 15 Feb 2012.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx/peopleevents/
p_malcolmx.html
"Biography Of Malcolm X." Estate of Malcolm X. (2001): n.
page. Web. 21 Feb. 2012.
<http://www.africawithin.com/malcolmx/malcolm_bio.htm
>.