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Impact of Malcolm X on America

When Malcolm was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan at the age of thirty-nine on February 21, 1965, he was a respected public figure for less than 10 years.
He was a national spokesman of the Nation of Islam, a conservative Muslim group that didn't have very much contact with the American life. His new protest group in Harlem, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, had existed for less than a year and had only several hundred members and supporters when he died. That is why respectable black leaders felt that Malcolm X's influence would soon be forgotten. Only days after he was killed, Bayard Rustin, the architect of the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., wrote: "Now that he is dead, we must resist the temptation to idealize Malcolm X, to elevate charisma to greatness. Malcolm X is not a hero of the movement; he is a tragic victim of the ghetto…. White America, not the Negro people, will determine Malcolm's role in history" Henry......

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