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- On 21 February 1965, just a few weeks after his visit to Selma, Malcolm X was assassinated. King called his murder a “great tragedy” and expressed his regret that it “occurred at a time when Malcolm X was … moving toward a greater understanding of the nonviolent movement” (King, 24 February 1965).
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Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City on February 21, 1965, at age 39.
Oct 19, 2024 · Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X never collaborated, and their protest strategies seemed completely opposed. However, two brief, unplanned meetings between Malcolm and the Kings suggested that Malcolm, in the year before he was assassinated, wanted to support King’s efforts.
- Motive and Background
- The Audubon Attack
- The Trial and Convictions
- Case Is Reopened, Leading to Exonerations
- Sources
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925, was the civil rights era's most notable advocate of Black nationalism. Rising through the ranks of the Nation of Islam, he left the political and religious group in 1964, following a deeply strained relationship with leader Elijah Muhammad over political ideology (Malcolm believed t...
Just after taking the stage with approximately 400 people in the audience, three men, one with a sawed-off shotgun and the others with pistols, rushed at Malcolm, firing several shots, at least one of which was fatal. Mujahid Abdul Halim (aka Thomas Hagan) was shot in the leg by a security guard, held and beaten by the crowd, and was arrested at th...
During the 1966 trial, Halim confessed to the crime and eventually testified that Islam and Aziz were innocent. Witness accounts were contradictory, The New York Times reports, and no physical evidence was provided against Islam or Aziz, who both presented credible alibis. "I just want to testify that Butler (Aziz) and Johnson (Islam) had nothing t...
Doubt was cast on the verdict against Aziz and Islam for decades. Halim again asserted their innocence in a pair of affidavits filed in 1977 and 1978 and offered up partial names of his accomplices, but a judge denied a motion for a new trial. Calls from book authors and experts to reopen the case were also left unheard—until February 2020. This is...
“2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated After Decades,” the New York Times "Malcolm X," The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University “The Day Malcolm X Was Killed,” the New Yorker "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X," by Les Payne, Norton Books "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," by M...
And so Malcolm was forced to live and die as an outsider, a victim of the violence that spawned him, and which he courted through his brief but promising life. The assassination of Malcolm X was an unfortunate tragedy.
Jan 19, 2021 · On March 26, 1964, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. met for the first and only time in Washington, D.C. Less than a year later, Malcolm was dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet, ending ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Three members of the Nation of Islam were arrested for Malcolm X’s murder in 1965, but mystery still surrounds who really killed the civil rights activist.
