Research Paper On The Assassination Of Malcolm X

The Assassination Of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot and killed during a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, on February 21, 1965. Malcolm X told interviewer Gordon Parks that the Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him. On February 21, 1965 while he was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon , there was a disturbance in the crowd a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Nobody deserves death, but was the Malcolm X assassination just or unjustified ? The assassination of Malcolm X was unjust

Membership grew very quickly, and Malcolm set out across the country, organizing more temples along the East and West Coasts and converting more educated and affluent members. Malcolm X helped to increase membership in the Nation of Islam from 400 to 400,000”( Taylor, Kimberly Hayes 1) .His leader Elijah Muhammad, was not living up to the standards he perceived to have. “Elijah Muhammad was sexually promiscuous “ (Malcolm 1) but despite Malcolm X being disillusioned by his leader he still was a genuine Muslim. Malcolm X visited Mecca and had a powerful religious conversion which made him feel as an equal to his ex leader Elijah Muhammad, which caused him to found his own Muslim Organization called “ The Organization Of Afro-American

Most people don't know that Malcolm X expressed a change in racial philosophies after seeing “thousands of people of different races of color and treated me as a human-being”( Robinson, Tom 71). Malcolm X when he left the NOI did admit that some of the views he expressed could have been perceived as racist but that he himself did not subscribe to any of the policies of racism and publicly apologised for any offence caused. His encouragement of using "By Any Means Necessary" didn't mean go out and relentlessly attack the White Race, he basically encouraged his followers to stand up for their rights if ever they were attacked. Malcolm X even stated that “ I have found blue-eyed men that I am able to call brother, so my entire statement when I said whites are devils are errors”( Robinson,Tom