Was Malcolm X an activist
and if he was add info that shows that he was
because i have a project in school that has to be on an activist and he wasnt on the provided list but the teacher said if i have an activist thats not on it and i ca prove that they were one i could do that person
so please help?
2007-03-07 14:56:13 · 7 answers · asked by Big Mike 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
No, not in the truer sense of the word but in a looser meaning then possibly. Malcolm Little, aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz started out as a drug dealer, a pimp, a petty thief and a burglar. He ended up publicly being a Muslim minister and a national spokesman for Nation of Islam. You know what sweet tenderhearted folks the Muslims are.
You're going to find very little true information on Malcolm but a semi-factual book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by (who else) Alex Haley will give you the goody goody version. Malcolm X was a radical who believed in the overthrow of the White government and promoted racial and religious hatred in the form of sequestered violence in order to accomplish this. He believed that Christianity was the White man's religion used to enslave the Black man, hence his conversion to Islam.
Good luck, you won't get any real juicy stuff unless you really dig.
2007-03-07 15:11:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Malcolm X was an activist. He was "active" in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
2007-03-07 15:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by Wrath Warbone 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes he was, and in my own opinion, he was an anarchist as well. Not a revolutionist anarchist, but just an anarchist. He defied and questioned so many things that the government threw in his face, and he fought back without violence. I forgot just how I put it in school, but I had to do a paper on him, and I stated that he was an anarchist more than anything, and it was frowned upon with many of the students and teachers, however it was understood by my teacher that I was writting the paper for, and she gave me an A.
But he was definatly an activist, and he was definatly an anarchist. Thats just my opinion though, either way the guy was freakin awesome and did so much for everyone.
2007-03-07 15:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by David K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i imagine MLK. I advise, we do not memorize Malcolm's speeches in college, can we? fairly, King evoked social replace by doing something distinct, by letting whites know that blacks might want to no longer wade through in silence, yet he did it with out causing violence and riots--that could be defined away or brushed off as "rabblerousing" by the adult males in fee. Non-violence were given human beings's interest and made them know and finally take section King's efforts. i imagine if issues were finished Malcolm's way issues might want to are growing to be worse, no extra useful. we would want to nevertheless have segregation yet purely it might want to have blown up into an finished race conflict. fairly some human beings might want to were killed. And no you'll have respected that wrestle as something yet a terrorist action. So definately King.
2016-10-17 11:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Malcolm X was am amazing activist. There's this great website that has basically everything you need to know about Malcolm X:
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/
Really hope I helped. Good Luck.
2007-03-07 15:08:16 · answer #5 · answered by Allahu_Akbar 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, he fought for African-Americans' freedom. He was assasinated. He is similar to Martin Luther King.
2007-03-07 15:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by Starstruck 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes he is...look down at my source..
2007-03-07 15:02:42 · answer #7 · answered by hon3ysmil3z 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋