Malcolm X

[sabre]

Anybody know where i could find, on the internet, an image of that famous picture of malcolm x by the window with the assault rifle, waiting for the nation of islam to come firebomb his house? thanks

[canikickit]

http://b5z.net/i/u/378672/i/MALCOLM_GUN_FINAL_SAMPLE55.JPG

Is this the one you mean?

I just did an image search on google. Have you tried that? I searched "malcolm x gun".

Obviously, that picture is terrible quality and what not. I don't know if I've seen the picture you mean.

[Hampton]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/by_any_means.jpg

[Lefty]

That is a sa-weet picture.

[Kez]

why were NOI after him?

[Larissa]

Intelligent and articulate, Malcolm was appointed a minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad also charged him with establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. Malcolm utilized newspaper columns, radio and television to communicate the Nation of Islam's message across the United States. His charisma, drive and conviction attracted an astounding number of new members. Malcolm was largely credited with increasing membership in the Nation of Islam from 500 in 1952 to 30,000 in 1963.

The crowds and controversy surrounding Malcolm made him a media magnet. He was featured in a week-long television special with Mike Wallace in 1959, The Hate That Hate Produced, that explored fundamentals of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm's emergence as one of its most important leaders. After the special, Malcolm was faced with the uncomfortable reality that his fame had eclipsed that of his mentor Elijah Muhammad.

Racial tensions ran increasingly high during the early 1960s. In addition to the media, Malcolm's vivid personality had captured the government's attention. As membership in the Nation of Islam continued to grow, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents infiltrated the organization (one even acted at Malcolm's bodyguard) and secretly placed bugs, wiretaps and cameras surveillance equipment to monitor the group's activities.

Malcolm's faith was dealt a crushing blow at the height of the civil rights movement in 1963. He learned that Elijah Muhammad was secretly having relations with as many as six women in the Nation of Islam, some of which had resulted in children. Since his conversion Malcolm had strictly adhered to the teachings of Muhammad, including remaining celibate until his marriage to Betty Shabazz in 1958. Malcolm refused Muhammad's request to keep the matter quiet. He was deeply hurt by the deception of Muhammad, whom he had considered a prophet, and felt guilty about the masses he had led into what he now felt was a fraudulent organization.


Cairo mosque, Sept. 1964

When Malcolm received criticism after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for saying, "[Kennedy] never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon," Muhammad "silenced" him for 90 days. Malcolm suspected he was silenced for another reason. In March 1964 he terminated his relationship with the Nation of Islam and founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc.

That same year, Malcolm went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The trip proved life altering, as Malcolm met "blonde-haired, blued-eyed men I could call my brothers." He returned to the United States with a new outlook on integration. This time, instead of just preaching to African-Americans, he had a message for all races.

Relations between Malcolm and the Nation of Islam had become volatile after he renounced Elijah Muhammad. Informants working in the Nation of Islam warned that Malcolm had been marked for assassination (one man had even been ordered to help plant a bomb in his car). After repeated attempts on his life, Malcolm rarely traveled anywhere without bodyguards. On February 14, 1965 the home where Malcolm, Betty and their four daughters lived in East Elmhurst, New York was firebombed (the family escaped physical injury).

At a speaking engagement in the Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Fifteen hundred people attended Malcolm's funeral in Harlem on February 27, 1965 at the Faith Temple Church of God in Christ (now Child's Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ). After the ceremony, friends took the shovels from the gravediggers and buried Malcolm themselves. Later that year, Betty gave birth to their twin daughters.

Malcolm's assassins, Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were convicted of first-degree murder in March 1966. The three men were all members of the Nation of Islam.

(Source: The official site of Malcom X)

[Larissa]

Sorry, here is the link:
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/bio.html

[Ze]

Malcolm X was a great leader of men.

[Pete]

What do the 'x's' stand for? Is it a rank inside the Nation or just a way they decided to rename themselves after adopting Islam?

I always thought that Malcolm was a violent man. That is what we have been told in school and through the media. I am ashamed that I could have believed that blindly, when obviously he wasn't a black supremest.

[Larissa]

..."By the time he was paroled in 1952, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X." He considered "Little" a slave name and chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name. "
(same link I mentioned before)

[canikickit]

In a lot of respects the Nation of Islam was a load of bullshit.

Elijah Muhammed preached that the white man had been invented by a mad scientist 6000 years ago, and that there were space ships orbiting the earth waiting for the right time.

He also believed that the height of a woman in relation to a man was relevant to how well they were suited.

Initially Malcolm X did believe that all white people were evil. He changed though.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

CrazyPete, Malcolm was a black supremacist. You must never get indulged in the counter-propaganda either.

Read the truth, which comes in the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Prior to Malcolm's pilgrimage to Makkah for Hajj, he was anti-white and wanted black supremacy.He WAS a racist and admitted it in brutal honesty after his visit to Makkah. In Makkah, his realisation that all people of all colours with all hair colours and eye colours are living in brotherhood under God. In the Holy Land Malcolm saw that brotherhood and unification could be acheived. From Makkah, he wrote his family explaining his change of attitudes. Explaining how he realised he was a racist, but no longer subscribed to any racism.

Don't get this mistaken for religious brainwashing either, as Malcolm still encouraged blacks to unite. His view was that blacks and whites could not unite before blacks first unite with themselves.

I really suggest you read Malcolm's autobiography if you haven't. It os one of the greatest books ever written.

On the topic of the picture of Brother Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz, there are 3 pictures of Malcolm that I think are better than even that great picture of him by the window. The famous one of him speaking into a microphone, pointing to the sky in a forward direction in mid speech with his teeth overlapping his bottom lip with that famous determined Malcolm look.

Another picture is the one which I think covered a magazine. Just a simple extreme close up of malcolms face. expressionless with his hand supporting his head.

But the best picture of Malcolm, for me, is the picture of him in the Cairo Mosque. Malcolm on his knees in prayer in a typically beautiful piece of Islamic architecture. The Mosque was decorated fit enough for Princes, Kings....God's. And there was Malcolm alone there

[Hampton]

http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10031000/10031762.jpg

http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~cwilson/graphics/malcolm.jpg

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/malcolm_x.jpg

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

Aaaayyyy, u got em dude.

Got the top one on my wall....huge poster! Gotta be done. Exact same one, with the quote on top.

Top stuff. Was it Time magazine that one was from?

[Pete]

I meant that I thought he was killed because he was a black supremist, not that he turned his back on them and the Nation of Islam. I thought it was something completely different. COMPLETELY. I don't know how I was mixed up. What you said Socialsmo still tells me how wrong I was before.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

Again, I recommend you read the book. It's so good.