Malcolm Xin a sentence
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Members of the Nation of Islam were convicted for assassinating Malcolm X.
Malcolm X = militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
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Malcolm X criticized Martin Luther King Jr. and the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration.
Malcolm X = militant U.S. civil rights leader (1925-1965)
- Black Jesus hangs from the cross in a painting on the hallway wall, and Malcolm X holds a shotgun in a photograph next to him. (source)
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Should she be teaching these students to write poetry when they need to know how to defend themselves from someone beating them up? Can a memoir by Malcolm X or a novel by Garcia Marquez save them from the daily blows?
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Malcolm X = militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
- For instance, reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X—a book that begins and ends in I the madness and pathology of America's racial obsessions—is a rite of passage for young black men.† (source)
- I got some cigarettes from a guy who told me he was in on a drugstore robbery up on Malcolm X Boulevard.† (source)
- "Tuesdays with Morrie" By Mitch Albom 33 One time, a group of black students took over Ford Hall on the Brandeis campus, draping it in a banner that read Malcolm X University. ford hall had chemistry labs, and some administration officials worried that these radicals were making bombs in the basement.† (source)
- She wears glasses that might have belonged to Malcolm X. She eyes the paint chips with precision; though she seeks the advice of her guests, she has already made up her mind about which permutation of the shade she will choose.† (source)
- Malcolm X had been killed the year before and had grown larger in death than in life.† (source)
- I discovered Claude Brown's Manchild In The Promised Land, Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Ice, and the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I found poetry by Don L. Lee and LeRoi Jones (now known as Haki R. Madhubuti and Amiri Baraka, respectively).† (source)
- The walls were covered with Black Power posters, pictures of Malcolm X, and green, red, and black maps of Africa.† (source)
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- Malcolm X Middle School.† (source)
- He would go down Malcolm X, and when he reached 110th Street, he would climb a stone stairway, overarched with leafy trees.† (source)
- Even Malcolm X, one of the fieriest black leaders in America, railed against the Children's Crusade, stating that "real men don't put their children on the firing line."† (source)
- I got riled up by "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Chomsky Reader"; Heidi read aloud passages from "The Anxiety of Influence."† (source)
- With Malcolm X watching me on her wall, I can't lie. (source)
- Seven and I could recite Malcolm X quotes by the time we were thirteen. (source)
- He agrees with the Nation of Islam on some stuff, but he can't get over the fact that they may have killed Malcolm X. (source)
- They have almost as many posters as Seven has, but the kind Daddy would love, like Malcolm X standing next to a window holding a rifle, Huey Newton in prison with his fist up for black power, and photographs of the Black Panthers at rallies and giving breakfast to kids. (source)
- We walked down to a lot on Malcolm X Bouleyard.† (source)
- The kids at Malcolm X were terrible to me.† (source)
- When Malcolm X talked about "the white devil" Mommy simply felt those references didn't apply to her.† (source)
- I remembered something I had heard about Malcolm X. He had said that when he was preaching on the corners in Harlem he was fishing for the dead.† (source)
- When Malcolm X, the supposed demon of the white man, was killed, I asked her who he was and she said, "He was a man ahead of his time."† (source)
- She actually liked Malcolm X. She put him in nearly the same category as her other civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedys-any Kennedy.† (source)
- My little sister Kathy and I would creep to the top of the stairs in our underwear, listening as the Big Kids had animated conversations about "changing the system" and "the revolution," extolling the virtues of Martin Luther King over Malcolm X and vice versa, and playing records by the Last Poets.† (source)
- Malcolm X, too.† (source)
- Deo hadn't been there in five years, and as we walked up Malcolm X Boulevard past rank after rank of renovated brownstones and gutted brownstones covered with scaffolding and clusters of new chain stores and banks, he made exclamations.† (source)
- When he walked out onto the sidewalk of Malcolm X Boulevard, he was met by a noise as loud and constant as the waterfall on the Siguvyaye River, but much less peaceful: a mingled noise of car horns and sirens and shouts and babbling voices and a blaring, tuneless music made up of words he didn't understand, words spoken emphatically over thumping sounds so deep he felt as though he heard them in his chest.† (source)
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