Died: February 21, 1965 in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom
Famous for: Another major leader for the Civil Right movement.
Malcolm X came from a family of 8. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a Baptist minister. Malcolm graduated in the top of his class, he was a very smart and focused student in school. His dream was always to become a lawyehttp://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.htmlr but when one of his teachers said that it was "no realistic goal for a nigger". (This quote came from the site: http://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.html ). After that quote from his teacher he lost interest in school and dropped out. He then proceeded to move to Harlem and started committing petty crimes. After a few years of that Malcolm moved backed to Boston and was arrested and charged with burglary and sentenced to 10 years in jail. But, because he of parole he only ended up serving 7 years. After getting out of prison he became a leader and began making speeches about human rights saying "human rights are something you are born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nation of this earth."
Malcolm X Speech
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