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Malcolm X on March 5, 1964
Photo Credit: Eddie Adams/AP
On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcom X was assassinated.
He was at a speaking engagement in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom when three gunmen rushed the stage and opened fire. He was pronounced dead at the age of 39.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Ne. His mother, Louise Helen Norton Little was from Grenada. His father, Reverend Earl Little, was a Baptist minister and an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Malcolm X was the seventh of his father’s nine children three by a previous marriage and his mother’s fourth child.
Malcolm X, African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960s. After his assassination, the widespread distribution of his life story, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, made him an ideological hero.