Labels:text | human face | man | person | glasses OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Malcolm X Malcolm X Malcolm X was a leader of the Black Muslim movement whose separatist views were directly opposed by the nonviolent civil rights movement led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His philosophy of raising black consciousness and of direct action influenced the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. He grew up in Lansing, Michigan, the son of a Baptist minister, then moved to Boston and became involved in crime. While in prison for burglary, he converted to the Nation of Islam, the Black Muslim faith, and on his release moved to Chicago and joined the sect. Discarding his surname, which he regarded as a mark of slavery, he became a spokesman for the Black Muslim movement, but was suspended for referring Malcolm X, to John F. Kennedy's assassination as "the U.S. black activist, chickens coming home to roost." He left the 1925-65 movement and founded the Muslim Mosque Ino. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. A violent feud ensued and he was shot and killed in Harlem by three men, two of whom were Black Muslims. CHRONOLOGY
