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<h1 id="title">Malcom X</h1>
<p id="full-name">El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz</p>
<h3>A Tribute to one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th-century</h3>
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<img id="image" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/MLK_and_Malcolm_X_USNWR_cropped.jpg" alt="Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference">
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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<h3>Chronology of Malcom X life</h3>
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<li>May 19, 1925 Malcolm Little is born in University Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska.</li>
<li>1929 The family’s home in Lansing, Michigan, is burned to the ground.</li>
<li>1931 His father is found dead on the town’s trolley tracks.</li>
<li>1946 Serving 8 to 10 years sentence at Charlestown State Prison for armed robbery.</li>
<li>1948-49 Became a member of the Nation of Islam while in prison.</li>
<li>1953 Changes his name to Malcolm X and becomes Assistant Minister of Nation of Islam’s Detroit Temple.</li>
<li>1954 Becomes the Minister of Nation of Islam’s New York Temple.</li>
<li>1958 Marries Betty X in Lansing, Michigan.</li>
<li>1959 Travels to United Arab Republic, Sudan, and Nigeria, and Ghana.</li>
<li>1963 Suspended from representing the Nation of Islam, allegedly because of remarks concerning President Kennedy’s assassination.</li>
<li>March, 1964 Malcolm X publicly announced his break from the Nation of Islam and starts his new organization, Muslim Mosque, Inc.</li>
<li>April, 1964 Malcolm X flew to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as the start of his Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca and visited Africa after.</li>
<li>May, 1964 Forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a secular group that advocated Pan-Africanism.</li>
<li>February 14, 1965 Malcolm X’s home is firebombed in the early morning.</li>
<li>February 21, 1965 Malcolm X is assassinated right after he begins speaking at the Audubon Ballroom, New York.</li>
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<em>"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcom X</em>
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You should read more about this influental African American on his
<a id="tribute-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry</a>
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