” said James Turner, national chairman of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee and a professor of political sociology at Cornell University. “We certainly don’t want people to think the movie can be taken as a historical document.”
Specifically, I raise two questions: First, how might we situate Malcolm X and his contributions to African unity within the historical evolution of Pan-Africanism? Second, and more central to the essay, how did he contribute to the contemporary emergence of Pan-African nationalism? The analysis...
HowStuffWorks Culture History Historical Figures 'By Any Means Necessary': The Life of Malcolm XBy: Oisin Curran | Updated: Nov 1, 2022 Malcolm X served as Nation of Islam leader from 1953 to 1964, expanding the organization's membership astronomically. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...
1. Who is the speaker, and what is his significance in history? The speaker of the first speech is John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States. President Kennedy was instrumental in improving relations with the USSR and improving civil rights in the US. He is seen as one of th...
How did a hoodlum, became a historical figure of Malcolm X? There was many events in his life that changed him, and shaped him to be that somebody. If we trace back his footsteps, his life as Malcolm Little, his life as a thug, his life as a inmate, and his life as a national ...
She’s trying to build a memorial to the slain minister on land her father left her--land, she discovered years later, where Malcolm had spent the first days of his life. Her family later tore down the house, not knowing its significance, but the land Moore kept--because of Malcolm, ...
most attracting thing to me about art was glory and getting good girlfriends. I found out that women like artists rather than stockbrokers. And also, it was to sit in the pantheon of the greats. Whether or not that happens is something else, but it is the scale of my historical ...