Malcolm X Assassinated in 1965
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He was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to Mr Earl Little and Mrs Louise Little. He died by multiple gunshot wounds on February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom at 3940 Broadway between West 165th and 166th Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. His killer was never apprehended nor made to suffer any consequences for his murder.
His issue were Malikah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz, Qubilah Shabazz, and Malaak Shabazz whom he fathered with Betty Shabazz, his wife and confidante.
Like Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X was always one of those people with whom I would have like to held a few conversations to get a feel for those persons they really were. It's a sad notion that they are both lost to posterity and all we have is what they said in public and what they wrote.
I liked his get in your face attitude and commitment to causes he felt were relevant to his time and place upon the Earth. He was prominent in the civil rights movement until he was killed by one of his own people — who by the way not only got away with the crime but lived a long and comfortable life afterward.
Racial justice not withstanding there is little to celebrate with the role of el-Shabazz in the history of the United States given the fact that he was murdered in cold blood with no one to successfully seek justice on his behalf.