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    Malcolm X’s real name is Malcolm Little. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska in May of 1925. Malcolm X’s life is a constant battle of racism and discrimination. The book starts off as Malcolm tells a story about how when his mother was pregnant with him, members of the Ku Klux Klan rode to their house in Omaha with torches and guns in hand. They yelled for his father to come out but his father was away preaching. His mother went outside and told them he was not there and they told her their family…

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    campfire in the middle of the woods, ghost have been a popular topic for scary stories. For a kid’s imagination a ghost is a provocative and terrifying idea, which are usually accompanied by goose bumps and an eerily feeling. For Cole, a main character in M. Night Shyamalan’s movie the sixth-sense, ghost are not just an idea in his imagination, but are part of his daily reality. Cole had a very strange “secret” in which he can see and communicate with ghost. A child psychologist named Malcolm…

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    Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha to a West Indian mother, and a Baptist minister father. He lived in many northern cities, until he was put in jail in February 1946. He began his self education program a year later. After talking to his brother, he joined the Nation of Islam in April of 1948. After he was released from jail, he met the leader of the Nation of Islam, and fully devoted his time to building the nation. Malcolm X changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz after…

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    May 2016 Malcolm X’s fight for black equality has been documented in his autobiography. This story of his life is presented through his first person narrative which only adds to his already strong voice. While growing up Malcolm learned a plethora of life lessons which he tried to spread up until his assassination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X shows through many themes, motifs, and symbols that importance of creating a world in which everyone is equal. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in…

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were the two important icons during the Civil Right movements. They probably are the two best known African-American leaders of the last century and are still being mentioned frequently in modern text books and many other news articles. Since their deaths in the 1960s no one has replaced them. They became famous about the same time. They are known as the two greatest men that are alike. They both have the same goal but their methods of accomplishing it are…

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    Malcolm X was a really powerful man , one of the most powerful men in the world. But he was not really powerful physically he was more powerful verbally. Malcolm made such an impact that he and many others changed the law.He was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He used that trait to help him and the African American society to an equal life. In the southern states, where most people believed that whites had superiority over blacks. They used to believe that to…

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    Malcolm X was an active and controversial leader in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. His radical ideas and methods challenged other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm did not have a stable childhood. His family of ten moved around the country frequently and was always subjected to acts of discrimination. His father Earl Little was a Baptist minister who was very involved in the fight for equality. Due to this early activism, the Little family received many death threats from the Black…

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    In The Autobiography of Malcolm x, Malcolm changed and developed into a successful public figure throughout his life. The challenges and the situations that he faced as a child and young adult contributed to the transformation in his life as well as his thoughts and religion. Race affected Malcolm in every experience in his life. He became anti-white and talked poorly about the white man. Malcolm went from a man who did not believe it was possible to integrate races in America and believed in…

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    is said by Malcolm X. Malcolm X is a very well known human rights activist. When he was born, his name was Malcolm Little, but then changed it because “He considered ‘Little’ a slave name and chose the ‘X’ to signify his lost tribal name.” (malcolmX.com). Malcolm X should go down in history as being just as well known as Martin Luther King. Throughout this paper, everyone should learn more about his life, his contributions and his impact, and there will be a comparison between Malcolm X and…

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    would celebrate independence and freedom from oppression when four million Americans labored on plantations with their hands and feet in chains. We saw it as we invaded the Middle East to combat terrorism and the Islamic State, regardless of the terror that was to be inflicted upon the innocent people actually living in the Middle East. We saw it…

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