BY: ERICA CURRY
Thesis: A leader during the end of the Civil Rights Movement who found his calling while in prison and had a couple significant accomplishments during his life time.
Accomplishments:
-Accomplishing his goal to learn more about his faith, Black Muslim, through reading every book available in the Charlestown Prison library.
-After his split from the Nation of Islam Malcolm founded the Muslim Mosque Inc. a great organization created for Malcolm’s followers to easily continue to follow his beliefs.
-He also founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. This organization was put into motion in order to fight for the rights of Africans and promote the cooperation between Africans and African Americans.
LEADERSHIP:
Tough empathy, he was not afraid to be different. He went against the views of Martin Luther King Jr. and had no problem in doing so. He saw his approach as the alternative to Martin Luther King’s approach. In the one and only meeting Malcolm X and MLK had he told MLK, “maybe the white people will be more willing to hear what Dr. King has to say if they realize what their alternative is.”
CRITICISM:
Malcolm X should have led with more of an open mind in the beginning of his leadership. If he would have established his organizations earlier he would have gotten to hear the voices of his followers earlier. Those opinions could have potentially helped him to get further in his career as a civil rights activist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://www.ushistory.org/us/54h.asp http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=65