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Malcolm X: By All Means Necessary

As I finished reading the book “Malcolm X: By All Means Necessary”, I thought about a lot of the things Malcolm X stood for; equal rights, black power and freedom from the “white man”. Malcolm had an ideology that he stood for strongly, which to me is especially important. Malcolm fought for the black population in the 1960’s through adversity and defeat, he took a stand for what he believed in and helped change the face of a nation.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.
His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm got a lot of his strong opinions and ideas from his father. His father’s civil rights activism prompted death threats from a white supremacist......

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