Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man's Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty...
Savage Speaker. Malcolm soon proved one of Elijah Muhammad's best recruiters-in an organization that, then and now, desperately needed recruits. The Black Muslims had received little public notice until the civil rights movement and its street demonstrations catapulted them into the news. Today, Black Muslims claim up to 250,000 members. A much more accurate estimate would accord the group 2,000 in New York, 500 in Chicago, 350 in Los Angeles, 230 in Detroit, 220 in Washington, 150 in both St. Louis and San Francisco, 100 in Kansas City, under 100 in each of 70 other...
This was outrageous enough for Elijah to suspend Malcolm from the Black Muslim movement. Malcolm quit for keeps, soon had formed his own white-hating Organization of Afro-American Unity, and urged Negroes to form rifle clubs...
...also murdered. Both Malcolm and his father died prematurely because they were Negroes, because that fact evoked--perhaps against their will--hatred in them and in others. Malcolm's father was killed by whites while a member of the African movement of Marcus Garvey. Malcolm died an ex-Black Muslim and a leader of the Organization of Afro-American unity; ironically, he was killed by Negroes...
This code, as expressed in the Black Muslim movement, provides the framework for a Negro conservatism, based on ostensibly radical principles, which Malcolm--despite his talk of white devils and black nationalism--clearly challenged...