Malcolm X

Question 1

What were his beliefs?

Answer 1

violence could be justified to secure a separate black nation, rejected King’s peaceful methods.
Believed in black self esteem.

Question 2

What was his appeal?

Answer 2

He was a gifted public speaker who attracted young black americans.

Question 3

What did he do in 1964?

Answer 3

left the Nation of Islam and created the Muslim Mosque inc. and the organisation of Afro-American unity.

Question 4

what did his ideas become the foundation of?

Answer 4

His ideas became the foundation of the black power and black panther radical movements.

Question 5

When was he assassinated?

Answer 5

1965

Question 6

What was the Nation of Islam?

Answer 6

> rejected Christianity as a white man’s religion and chose instead to follow Islam

> led by ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
- rejected slave names and substituted with ‘X’ as a sign of their transformation

> rejected white society and called for a race war

> long term aim was a separate black state