Increasingly, Malcolm was seen as the national spokesman for the Black Muslims, and he was often sought out for his opinion on public issues. In vitriolic public speeches on behalf of the Nation of Islam, he described whites in the United States as devils and called for African Americans to...
As the opening credits roll, we hear Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) delivering a speech about the oppression of the black race by the white race, openly and loudly accusing whites of murder, rape and slavery. Intercut with the credits is footage of the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los ...
After a pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm rejected his former separatist beliefs and advocated world brotherhood. Malcolm now blamed racism on Western culture and urged African Americans to join with sympathetic whites to bring to an end.Malcolm X
Malcolm X: You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly; people of ...
King preached nonviolence and interracial harmony, whereas the militant Malcolm X advocated racial hatred and armed confrontation. Even Malcolm's infamous slogan, "By Any Means Necessary!" still evokes among whites disturbing images of Molotov cocktails, armed shoot-outs, and violent urban insurrection...
The movie then follows Malcolm as he sheds his last name – the legacy, the Muslims preached, of slaveowners – and becomes a fiery street-corner preacher who quickly rises until he is the most charismatic figure in the Black Muslims, teaching that whites are the devil and that blacks must...
While most civil rights movements, including King’s NAACP, fought against racial segregation, Malcolm pushed for the complete separation of black people from whites. He believed that African-Americans should go back to their continent. He opposed King’s nonviolence and pushed to fight by any mea...
This causes him to change his ways and have a more orderly hatred of whites. Later on his attitude changes again, contrasting from his previous beliefs. He would now encourage white involvement in the struggle for black emancipation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X discusses the civil rights ...
whites were the personification of the devil.Malcolm then moved from crime and marginalization, caused by circumstances, to political activism in defense of the African American community.After being released from prison in 1952, Malcolm joined the NOI, changing his surname from Little to “X”....
whites on the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy, one-eighth Black, was promptly arrested. After a local judge decided Plessy was guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that decision, declaring that "separate but equal" accommodations in something like a railcar didn't infringe on a person's ...