Black supremacy

I really enjoyed this weeks readings! Both Fredrick Douglass and Malcom X are such amazingly inspirational people. While I’ve read about Douglass’s life before, I hadn’t really ever read anything by Malcolm X. It’s really eye opening to read both of their works. So much can be learned from their writings it’s difficult to narrow it down to even one specific area! What was most greatly impressed upon me in this weeks reading was their dedication to education. It’s remarkable to see how they both…

October 2014 Black Activist: Malcolm X Malcolm X is known for being as one of many contributors to the controversy of black segregation in America. Like many of the civil right’s leaders he fought for the black’s freedom and rights doing whatever it took to make society see the racial problems in America. Although his ways and thoughts of achieving freedom for blacks differed from most, Malcolm ideas and beliefs were on similar levels with the other activists. His aspirations for blacks in…

Legendary Beard Fact: Heroic western figure Wyatt Earp was said to have killed thirty men during his lifetime. Perhaps his opponents were as intimidated by his magnificent mustache and beard combo as his skills with a gun. Wyatt Earp started life on March 19, 1848 in Warren County, Illinois, and began his trek westward before the age of two, when his father joined a group of settlers heading for California. The family only made it about 150 miles before leaving the expedition due to the…

mother. When Malcolm was born, his mother was a homemaker and his father was a Baptist minister and a supporter of the Black National leader, Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey was the founder of the U.N.I.A (Universal Negro Improvement Association) a black nationalist fraternal organization representing the largest mass movement in African-American history, famous for proclaiming their black Nationalist message…

Revolutionary Suicide Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life; it is not one being forced to die. Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the horrendous event at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. On November 18, 1978 a total of 909 Americans died under the direction of People’s Temple leader Jim Jones. Not every member of the People’s Temple willingly gave up their lives many were shot if they were not willingly…

Motivation for Self-Education The essays “Coming to the Awareness of Language” by Malcolm X and “The Library Card” by Richard Wright are about how two men tried to educate themselves by reading books. Malcolm X was a man in the 1940-1950 who spent his time in jail rewriting the pages of the dictionary to better himself as both a reader and writer. He wanted to better his education and be able to write letters to Elijah Muhammad without sounding uneducated. He was reading about African American…

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was assassinated February 21, 1965 by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. His followers looked at him as a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, while he was there for the harshest term for crimes against black americans. People call him a preacher of racism and violence. But people also call him one of the greatest and…

The argument of The Autobiography of Malcolm X is that the Nation of Islam permanently changed Malcolm’s life. Before he joined the Nation and found Allah, he was involved with drugs, hustlers, and prostitution. Malcolm then goes to jail for stealing a watch and becomes known throughout the prison for his anti-religious ways, earning the nickname “Satan.” Malcolm receives a letter from his brother, Reginald, where Reginald tells Malcolm not to eat any more pork or smoke any more cigarettes, that…

I believe that Malcolm X did grow into a positive black leader and member of the nation of Islam because of his tragic life, his motivation, and his belief. Firstly, Malcolm X’s life was full of tragic events that helped him become a positive black leader and member of the nation of Islam. Growing up Malcolm’s father died, which led him to live in a foster home. Malcolm also dropped out of school and began gambling, stealing, doing drugs, and becoming an unfaithful man. Malcolm X even went to…

Malcom X. was Black civil right leader in 1960s in the united states and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith, challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the no violent pursuit of the integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. he urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”. Born Malcom little, he changed his last name to X to signify his rejection of his “slave”. In 1964, Malcom X made a pilgrimage to mecca and changed his…