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Malcolm X on his 100th Birthday

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On May 19, 1925, Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska.  After joining the Nation of Islam while in prison in 1946, Malcolm changed his name to Malcolm X and became one of the most renowned speakers in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.  The Monday Buzz took a look back at Malcolm X’s legacy on what would have been his 100th birthday, with excerpts from two of his speeches:

  1. “The Ballot or the Bullet” from April 13, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio
  2. “Words from the Front Lines” from February 21, 1965 at the Ford Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan

    3. Photo of Malcolm X (1964) by Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Audio courtesy Internet Archive (archive.org).

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