Black History Month - Malcolm X

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  1. My name is Britain Hours and from my Black History
  2. Month project, I went with Malcolm X.
  3. My focus question for the project is Who was an
  4. African American Muslim minister who fought in the civil rights
  5. movement? The answer to that question is Malcolm X.
  6. Malcolm X's full and real name is Malcolm Little and
  7. who was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
  8. Mom was, sadly, very part of child and his father,
  9. Doug, so white supremacist when he was younger.
  10. Mhm, his mother was also institutionalized for mental health issues.
  11. This resulted in him and his siblings have to go
  12. to a foster home where they would be separated.
  13. Malcolm then dropped out of med school and moved to
  14. Boston, where he had become a shoe shiner in a
  15. drug dealer.
  16. Later in his life, Malcolm went to prison for robbery.
  17. In prison, he would convert to Islam and join the
  18. nation Islam.
  19. He then quit smoking and eating pork.
  20. Because of the dietary restrictions, he spent hours and hours
  21. on end at the library refrigerator, educate himself and urged
  22. that the nation to become more active in the widespread
  23. civil rights protests.
  24. Instead of just being critics on the sidelines.
  25. Malcolm was then sadly assassinated while delivering a lecture at
  26. the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
  27. In my timeline to discuss topics like when Mom was
  28. born in 1925 which also was the year of the
  29. New Yorker magazine.
  30. His first issue was published in 1939.
  31. Malcolm's father dies in this very same year.
  32. Nevada legalized gambling.
  33. Eight years later, Malcolm drops out of school in the
  34. same year Germany invades Poland.
  35. 1946. Mom was arrested in the same year The credit
  36. card was invented in 1952.
  37. Malcolm is released from prison in the same year.
  38. King George the six, dies in 1965.
  39. Malcolm X's funeral happens in the very same year and
  40. month sound and music was released.
  41. Mhm. My symbolic images represents him what he does best.
  42. Lecturing and giving speeches about civil rights and black Americans
  43. and why they were guy didn't deserve justice.
  44. Okay, some infamous quotes that Malcolm X went by were
  45. The future belongs to those who prepare for today.
  46. Also, education is the passport to future, for tomorrow belonged
  47. to those who prepare for today.
  48. Then, if you're not ready to die for put the
  49. word read them out of your book library, and his
  50. most favorite words he went by were by any means
  51. necessary. My owed from Malcolm X was Oh, the break
  52. Fuck Max.
  53. Did he ever catch a break?
  54. For God's sake, Is he exhausted and tired of the
  55. activism that he loved spending about seven years in the
  56. Lonely Jail?
  57. So even his childhood did not go well, even though
  58. he got many threats he had nothing to regret.
  59. In my video, Di linked represents his beach, and it
  60. shows one of the lectures he gave out.
  61. So that was my Black History Month.