ASSASSINATION MALCOM X

Malcom X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His original religion was Christian and his initial name that had been given was Malcolm Little.  His father was a Baptist minister and leader of repatriation movement known as the Marcus Garvey Back to Africa movement. At young age of him, he made a lot of crime such as drug dealer and stealing but at the age of eighteen he was send to prison for stealing someone  money. In the prison, he was introduced to book Elijah Muhammad. After read the book, he claimed to change his current religion to Islam and changed his name to Malcom X. He was release in the year 1952, and he became a Muslim minister ath the temple of the Nation of Islam before decided to migrate to New York City.

          

 Before he made up his mind to migrate to New York City, have joined The Nation of Islam, a radical black political that was led by Elijah Muhammad during the time. Malcom X has some issued with Elijah Muhammad’s son- in-law, Raymond Sharrief. Finally, Malcom X left The Nation of Islam and he formed his own organization that known as Organization of Afro-American Unity. He persuaded that the black and white people could work together to achieve political change.

           

On 21st February 1965, Malcom X had to make a speech in Audubon and strangely all others speakers speech had cancelled on that day. Around time 3.05 pm, there were a riot broke out at the place where he was giving out his speech. A man shouted “Get your hand outta my pocket! Don’t be messing with my pockets!” Suddenly, a smoke bomb was detected at the back of the stage where Malcom X was giving his speech. The crowd started to panic and Malcom X’s bodyguards moved forward to calm down the crowd. While his bodyguards tried to control the situation, Malcom X ‘s assassins  made they move to complete his mission which was to kill Malcom X.

        

   Melcom X dead body was buried at the Ferncliff Cementry in Hartdale, New York. Later, the police made a first arrest on three men that were suspect to be Malcom X’s killers. Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were the members of The Nation of Islam. Then, three of them were found guilty and were sentenced of the first-degree murder on March 1966.

But some people do believe that Malcome X was not killed by the three people that were found guilty to kill him by court. Some people did believe that he was been killed by the CIA Agents because of Malcom X once told his friend that he was being followed by the CIA Agents and he knew that his life was on danger. Lastly, he also fall ill and there was a rumor that he had his food poisoned on purpose by the people in The Nation of Islam that wanted to take revenge on him.  

Prepared by: Nur Amira Binti Najmuddin