Malcolm X
Beginning of paper
According to many, Black America is facing its worse crisis since the days of slavery., with black-on-black violence, endemic drug abuse and the virtual disappearance of the two-parent family the most visible symbols of a community devastated by unemployment and Government cuts to education and wel ....
Middle of paper
.... White America had forced them to suffer for over four hundred years. The X represented the African tribal name his ancestors had lost when they were brought in their millions as slaves from Africa to America. From his initial, radical stance as a "Black Nationalist" seeing evil in all whites, he came to think that blacks and whites could work together for international revolution, a belief that ultimately led to his murder in 1965 by rival Black Muslims. Though he came from the American ghetto, ....
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Page count: 9 (approximately 250 words per page)
