Malcolm X also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was an African-American Muslim minister. A public speaker, and human rights activist. By the time he was 13, his father had died and his mother had been committed to a mental hospital. Malcolm was moved through numerous amounts of foster homes, later turning him into a criminal underworld in Boston and New York. In 1945, Malcolm X was sentenced to eight to ten years in prison. While in prison he became part of the Nation of Islam. During his Parole in 1952 he became one of NOI spokesmen. After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a Sunni Muslim and made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Malcolm had a lot of complications throughout his life, peopl were racist towards him, which led to his downfall.
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