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How Did Malcolm X Change
Malcolm X went through a huge change in his life that ultimately led to his death. When he was young he faced racial discrimination by getting visited by the Ku Klux Klan and getting his house. Thinking this Malcolm X grew up and you can see how Malcolm X was trying to be more white by making his hair like theirs. Malcolm X wore a suit and was dating 2 women, a white girl named Sophia and a black Christian girl. He treated Sophia like she was his property and cheated on his black girlfriend, who was Christian and didn’t want to put him out before marriage. Malcolm at this point enjoyed going to parties and was working on a train while having more fun at this time of his life. believing the white people had the most power and wanted to be like them. One day he was threatened by a guy and Malcolm beat the guy with a bottle and gained the recognition of dangerous people. That's when he met Archie, the …show more content…
Elijah met the founder and in 1931 he joined the nation and changed his name to Elijah Muhhamad. He traveled around preaching against white people, which gave him an enormous black following. One ordinary day he gets a letter from Malcolm from prison and he gives a welcome note and grants him 5$ enclosed in the envelope. Once Malcolm got out of prison, he started spewing Elijah’s teachings everywhere he could and eventually became an enormous sensation that everyone loved. Elijah had a hefty amount of rumors going around saying “Elijah was conducting extramarital affairs with young Nation secretaries”. Malcolm didn’t pay rumors even a minute amount of attention and kept preaching until he started to go too far when he bashed John. F Kennedy, which caused Malcolm to be silenced for 90 days. Later he attacked and his house burned out, thinking Elijah tried to kill him. Malcolm decides to leave and starts trying to learn Islam for himself. Elijah later died of congestive heart

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