Malcolm X Assasination

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, an atmosphere of tension and racial violence simmered under a thin veil that called for peaceful demostrations and marches. However, under this veil lay a movement that called for self defense "by any means necessary". Now what you consider "by any means necessary" is entirely based on your interpretation. Leading the call to this movement of self-determination was a man by the name of Malcolm X. His views of using violence to defend African American rights was highly controversial but was (and still is) at the time influential.

Malcolm X was a man who was the polar opposite of the peaceful and calm Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ironically, it wasn't the white cultrue that threatened (publicly) to murder or assasinate him. When he left the Muslim group: The Nation of Islam, a lot of anger stirred within the organization. On February 21, 1965, this anger culminated to his assasination at the Audubon Ballrom in Atlanta by 3 members of the organization (Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson).

Thought out, written, and contemplated by: MC, KM, SF