Agressive Action in Civil Rights
        "Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."    ... Malcolm X
 
 
  "I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem - just to avoid violence. I don't go for non-violence if it also means a delayed solution. To me a delayed solution is a non-solution." ...Malcolm X

 

       
  Biography  of Malcolm X

   

 Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925.  Although voted class president in school,  Malcolm learned that opportunties for African Americans were limited.   Malcolm's father murdered, and frustration of violence, intimdation and discrimination fueled anger.   Malcolm  was sent to a prison  in 1946.  In prison,  Malcolm resumed his academic pursuit and took interest in the Nation of Islam.  Released from prison in 1952,    Malcom dedicated his life to the Islamic religion and changed his last name to X, the "X" to represent the loss of his real last name lost by slavery.    
 
     How did Malcolm's pilgrmage (Hajj) to Mecca change his views?
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  "In the past I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capapble of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks." ....Malcolm X



      Black Panther History in Civil Rights

      Black Panther's Mission Statement & Foundation

      10 Point Program



"By any means necessary...."

      The Black Panther organization began because some people were  frustrated in the citizen rights for African American.   Founders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton two major themes.  Education, self-esteem, knowledge of heritage, and responsibility were characteristics African Americans needed to help each other gain so that they may be the leaders of their own communities and gain political power. Second, the Panther organization blamed the government for the present condition of ghettos and slums. They believed it was the government's responsibility to rebuild that which they had so successfully created through discrimination.

   
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