https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6 Alex Haley en-us 2023-02-01 22:01:59 UTC 2023-04-01 03:07:05 UTC hello@padlet.com kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2465294850 Alex Haley. Malcolm X. New York. 1964. ]]> 2023-02-01 22:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2465294850 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512075248 In 1929, which he refers to as "the nightmare night," Malcolm  X was awaken by pistol shots, shouting, smoke, and flames. Their house was burning down. The white fireman had just watched as it burned down. 
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"Shortly after Yvonne was born came the nightmare night in 1929, my earliest vivid memory." Page 3]]> 2023-03-10 16:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512075248 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512080316 Malcolm X spoke to the students on January 1963 about how East Lansing harassed his family out of town and how he had a reunion with his brother Robert after a long time. ]]> 2023-03-10 16:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512080316 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512085950 After their father was found dead, possibly by Klan members, his mother eventually had a complete breakdown, and was sent to the State Mental Hospital Kalamazoo, and stayed there for 26 years. This caused Malcolm and his siblings to be sent to foster homes, and they separated. Which led to Malcolm living a dangerous lifestyle. ]]> 2023-03-10 16:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512085950 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512087570 After dropping out of highschool, he was in a relationship with a white women, Laura. She would give him money. Him being with someone like her, (a "Hill" girl) elevated his status among other African American men.]]> 2023-03-10 16:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2512087570 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534126612 After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Malcolm X got a railroad job which he was fired from, which led him to work at a well known nightclub in Harlem. He began to fall into the trap of Harlem's nightlife. He got into criminal work and became a hustler. Engaging in things such as gambling, drug selling, robbing. ]]> 2023-03-28 01:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534126612 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534133756 The life of being a criminal eventually came to an end when he was arrested by the police in 1946 due to burglary. It was hard on him because he suddenly couldn't take drugs anymore. This is a very important moment which led up to who he became later in his life, after his religious conversion in prison. 
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"I had put a stolen watch into a jewelry shop to replace a broken crystal...two days later, when i went to pick up the watch, that things fell apart" Page 151]]> 2023-03-28 01:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534133756 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534140549 He met the first person in prison to make a positive impression on him, "Bimbi," in 1947. He told him that he had some brains, and should use it and use the library and prison correspondence courses. Malcom listened and soon was able to write a letter and expanded his knowledge more. 
"Bimbi told me flatly, as was his way, that I had some brains, if I'd use them." Page 157]]> 2023-03-28 01:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2534140549 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2535399983 1948, he got a letter from his brother Philbert about how --"he had discovered the natural religion for the black man" (page 158). -- And how he is apart of the Nation of Islam now and told Malcolm to pray to Allah. He had multiple letters from other family members too, but only listened until Reginald sent him a letter saying he can get out of prision if he quit cigarettes and eating pork. This letter transformed his life completely. ]]> 2023-03-28 17:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2535399983 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538834959
Malcolm X was released from jail and moved in with his brother in Detroit. Malcolm X had met Elijah Muhammad in the year 1952. This led to him being invovled in the Nation of Islam and he began organizing temples for the Nation of Islam. 

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"Hilda said that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad came to Detroit.."  Page 167

]]> 2023-03-30 18:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538834959 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538839014 Malcolm X chooses to reject the last name "Little" which is his family last name given by white opressors. This small decison empowered him and made him known as "Malcolm X."

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"For me, my "X" replaced the white slavemaster name of "Little" which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears." Page 203]]> 2023-03-30 18:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538839014 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538966691 He began preaching his beliefs to Harvard and Oxford students. He had challenged Martin Luther King's beliefs, he believes there are more crutical things than being able to sit in a restaurant and eat. Instead he called for black power, black self-defense and black economic autonomy, and also racial pride. ]]> 2023-03-30 21:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538966691 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538969720 Malcolm X founded a Black nationalist organization referred to as The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) in the year of 1964. ]]> 2023-03-30 21:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538969720 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538972590 Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad had disagreements about the direction of the Nation and Malcolm damaged the Nation's image after John F Kennedy's assassination in 1963. He had said "chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad." Page 362. He was silenced for 90 days by Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and moved on. ]]> 2023-03-30 21:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538972590 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538974721 Malcolm decided to make a pilgrimage to Mecca after being told by many students visiting the United States in colleges he spoke at that he should visit Mecca. He was told that if he would make him exposed to true Islam and he would understand it and embrace it. He listened when Wallace Muhammad told him that "yes, certainly, a Muslim should seek to learn all that he could about Islam." Page 325. ]]> 2023-03-30 21:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538974721 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538977138 After Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and tensions began to worsen. This led to death threats and he faced violence. Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights was where he was killed while he was delivering a lecture. 3 members from the Nation of Islam were suspected and arrested. ]]> 2023-03-30 21:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2538977138 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540415242  He first started to stop smoking, and hasn't ever since 1948. When pork was served for the noon meal, Malcolm said "I don't eat pork." He felt proud after that. This came as a shock to the other prisoners. ]]> 2023-04-01 01:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540415242 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540419043 It all began with Malcolm sending a letter to Elijah Muhammad.  He was welcomed by the "Messenger" and was told how black men were thrown into life of crime due to white society. 

]]> 2023-04-01 01:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540419043 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540431277 Malcolm held a press conference about his new organization, "Muslim Mosque Inc." Despite the title, his intention was to have all black people of different faiths to be apart of it. But before doing so, Malcolm believed he needed to make a pilgrimage to Mecca to reaffirm his spiritual beliefs. ]]> 2023-04-01 02:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540431277 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540434406 He met pilgrims of all different kinds of races and saw the brotherhood between them. The trip to Mecca changed his attitude on race and began his ideas to change. He wrote a letter describing his thoughts after his trip to Mecca.

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"But on this pilgrimage what I have seen and experienced has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought patterns previously held." Page 347]]> 2023-04-01 02:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540434406 kaurpra002_2_1 https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540441819 Malcolm has article after article written about him casting him as a "symbol of the revolt and violence of the American black man." Page 367. During the press conference in 1964 he expressed how when white youth were killing victims it was seen as a sociological problem, but when a black youth did, "the power structure was looking to hang somebody." Page 368.  He also had a speech regarding his "Letter From Mecca"]]> 2023-04-01 02:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurpra002_2_1/59903r03ok3z5ak6/wish/2540441819