malcolm x,Martin l king etc assinated because?
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Obviously you know nothing of these two great men because all the questions you are posting have nothing to do with their beliefs\nyou sound like your a little young to know the history without reading a book so why not grab their life stories so you'll understand what they really stood for.
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1. Martin.\n2. Luther.\n3. King.
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Here is some information for you...\n\n \nBetty Shabazz\n(1936-1997)\nActivist, Nurse, Health services administrator, Educator\nWhen Betty Shabazz married the dynamic civil rights leader Malcolm X, she could not anticipate the extent of her husband's fame or the course that their lives would take. Shabazz was catapulted into the American consciousness and the media spotlight following her husband's assassination in 1965 by three members of the Nation of Islam. Formerly an esteemed leader of the Nation, Malcolm broke with the black nationalist organization in 1963, after revising his separatist ideals and embracing a new philosophy of global unity. His young widow, pregnant with twin daughters at the time of his murder, was left to raise themóand their four sistersóby herself. In the ensuing years, Shabazz avoided publicity when she could, opting instead to provide a quiet, normal home life and full education for her children.  \nBetty was an adopted child who grew up in a fairly sheltered, middle-class household in Detroit, Michigan. She went to the local Methodist church with her parents on Sundays, parties on some Saturday nights with church friends, and movies on Fridays. While attending Northern High School, she joined the Del Sprites, a sorority affiliate. After high school graduation, she attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and encountered her first racial hostilities, which she didn't understand, and her parents refused to acknowledge. "They thought [the problems] were my fault," she later wrote in an autobiographical portrait printed in Essence magazine. After two years in Alabama, she moved to New York City to attend nursing school at Brooklyn State Hospital.  \n\nWhile at school in New York, a friend invited her to hear Malcolm X speak at an Islamic temple. When this friend said she'd arrange for them to be introduced after his speech, Betty's initial reaction was "big deal," she related in Essence in 1992. "But then," she continued, "I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.... Well, he got to the podiumóand I sat up straight. I was impressed with him." They were introduced later, and she became even more impressed. They talked about the racism she encountered in Alabama, and she began to understand its causes, pervasiveness, and effects. Soon, Betty was attending all of Malcolm's lectures. By the time she graduated from nursing school in 1958, she was a member of the Nation of Islam.  \n\nBetty Shabazz explained in Essence, "I never 'dated' Malcolm as we think of it because at the time single men and women in the Muslims did not 'fraternize' as they called it. Men and women always went out in groups." In addition, Malcolm was busy with a relentless schedule of speaking engagements for the Nation of Islam. Nevertheless, their connection grew strong. Soon after she finished nursing school, Malcolm, who was traveling the country at the time, called her from Detroit and proposed. Before the week was out, they were married.  \n\nThe marriage did not last as long as either had hoped. On February 21, 1965, while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, he was gunned down. Shabazz had brought their four daughters to hear him speak that day. As the first of the 16 bullets that tore into Malcolm's body rang out, she threw her children down and covered them with her own body. After the shots, Shabazz tried to get to Malcolm, but someone held her back. When she finally did reach him, he was dead, and she wondered if she would survive herself.  \n\nRecovering from Tragedy\nFor three weeks, Shabazz did not sleep. She kept seeing her husband's body fall. "I really don't know where I'd be today if I had not gone to Mecca to make Haj
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I've always wondered that too. I think that Washington and Lincoln are more important than MLK to American History. I think that MLK was a great man and did great things, but he didn't go nearly as much as our early presidents did.
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Malcolm Little was his real name.  the X was put there to replace his "slave name": the surname given to his ancestors by their oppressive masters.
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I don't know the specifics of this, but it may have something to do with the Black Panthers' propensity towards violence. You might want to read Elaine Brown's "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story" to learn more about the dark side of the Black Panthers (don't get me wrong, I think they did a lot of great things, but there's definitely another side to them).
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Colin Powell, Martin Luther King Jr., George Bush.... The list could go on. Abe Lincoln is a good one.
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Current leaders or at any time?  \n\nBecause if you can have at any time in history, do a Yahoo image search for the "black panthers".
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People like Al Sharpton gain their powerbase and fame from crying racism every chance they can.  It's a power trip.  It doesn't make the problems less real, just more difficult to judge if they are truly promoting racial harmony or their own agenda.
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ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIED FOR OUR RIGHTS let remember the ones that died long before any civil rights person. Because we all forget the ones that where slaves and went through it all. MLK was a good man but he wasn't a slave. Let pay respect to the ones that where slaves too, they carried all the burden of slavery. We like to remember the few that help end it, why not the tens of millions that where. Surley their souls cry out that they died from the oppressoins of slavery, just to have this generation to enjoy the benfits of their struggles then not even acknowledge or remember them. What a disrepect!
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It's cute how you think that all black people are in gangs...it truly is the frosting on the cake of my stereotyped life. But seriously what truly amazes me is how in that simple question you stomped all the works and struggles of Martin Luther king and Malcom X down to mud to dribble into the sewers and mix in with the rats and piss that i've come to love so much...ever so many thanks for the ego boost. How kind of you to degrade black people without any consideration or acknowledgement of the fact that we, as unimaginable as that is,are people too.
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NO he was not killed because of that, read this if you can, maybe it will explain to you.\nBiography of Malcolm X\n\n\n \nMarch 10, 1964\nPhoto by Truman Moore/Time Warner, Inc. \nMalcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday. Regardless of the Little's efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground, and two years later Earl's mutilated body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks. Police ruled both accidents, but the Little's were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise had an emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.\n\nMalcolm was a smart, focused student and graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts working various odd jobs, and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was coordinating various narcotic, prostitution and gambling rings.\n\nEventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, moved back to Boston, where they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges in 1946. Malcolm placated himself by using the seven-year prison sentence to further his education. It was during this period of self-enlightenment that Malcolm's brother Reginald visited and discussed his recent conversion to the Muslim religious organization the Nation of Islam. Intrigued, Malcolm studied the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Among other goals, the Nation of Islam fought for a state of their own, separate from one inhabited by white people. 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.\n\n \nFeb. 18, 1965\nPhoto by Robert L. Haggins \nIntelligent 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nRacial 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
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He was born as Malcolm Little.  While in prison for burglary, Malcolm Little adopted the Black Muslim faith and became a minister of the Nation of Islam upon his release in 1952. As Malcolm X, he was a charismatic advocate of black separatism who rejected Martin Luther King, Jr.'s policies of non-violence. Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964. That same year he made a pilgrimage to Mecca and shortly afterwards he embraced orthodox Islam and took the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He recanted some of his earlier more strident viewpoints on race, though he remained a staunch advocate of "black power." He was shot to death by a group of men while giving a speech in New York City in 1965; some of the men had connections to the Nation of Islam, though a formal tie between that group and the assassination was never proven.
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That sounds about right! The KKK are not true Christians and Al Qaeda are not true Muslims. They use these faiths as a front and a way to absolve themselves for the atrocities they commit! The Bible and the Koran both speak out against hatred, murder and causing harm to others.
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Dr. King wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in response to statements by 8 white ministersin a letter titled "A Call to Unity".  They stated that injustices were being done to the black community but these injustices should be handled in the court system, not in street protests.  Dr. King held that civil disobedience is a justified response to unjust laws and that waiting for the system to work meant that the injustice would never be addressed.\n\nThe full text of the letter is linked to in sources.
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They are only on the same page ("B") in the encyclopedia.\n\nAnywhere else, they're ideologically very different people.
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Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, Marcus Garvey, Elridge Cleaver\n\nSNCC - Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_African-American_legislation