Malcolm X #1301

$ 8.00

Caption from poster__ 

 

 By brother Malcolm

 I see you now

Standing tall,

Erect, fearless, 

 Speaking with voice 

 so loud Accusing,

condemning Wrong. 

 Wrong against 

 the Brother, 

 Who has suffered 

 So long, 

 so long,

  So long. 

 I hear you Malcolm. 

 You with perfect diction.

 Fire in your voice

Fire in your eyes

 Saying the things 

 That the Brother and 

 Sister Long to hear. 

 I feel the warmth 

 of your Handclasp. 

 The true feeling of 

 friendship

 And brotherly love. 

 I feel the tenderness 

 of your love And sincerity. 

 Truly you were my 

 brother, And brother 

 of all black mankind. 

 Ah! Brother, 

 why did you have To die?”

 

 

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. At first a follower of Elijah Muhammad, 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. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published after his death in 1965 and became a best-seller; the book was co-written by Alex Haley, later the author of Roots... X's widow, Betty Shabazz, died on 23 June 1997 after being severely burned in an apartment fire set by her 12-year-old grandson... Actor Denzel Washington played Malcolm X in the 1992 Spike Lee movie X.

 

 

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