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   Agressive Action in Civil Rights
       "Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the
            weight."    ... Malcolm X
 
 
  "I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem - just to avoid violence. I don't go for non-violence if it also means a delayed solution. To me a delayed solution is a non-solution." ...Malcolm X

 

     Autobiography 
     Interview with Alex Haley 
     Photos and Quotes 
     Life Timeline   
 
 

 Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925.  Although voted class president in school,  Malcolm learned that opportunties for African Americans were limited.   Fustration fueled anger for Malcolm and led him to a prison sentence in 1946.  In prison,  Malcolm resumed his academic pursuit and took interest in the Nation of Islam.  Released from prison in 1952,    Malcom dedicates his life to the Islamic religion and changes his last name to X.    As Malcolm X searches for solutions within the Civil Rights movement, he struggles between personal philosophies with the guidance of Islamic leader and mentor the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.  It is not until Malcolm X completes his Hajj to Mecca that his vision is cleared.  Malcolm becomes El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz and organizes a faction separate of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.    Tragically, as Malcolm reaches out to the civil rights movement, his life is taken.
 
 
  "In the past I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capapble of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks." ....Malcolm X


 
 
  



"By any means necessary...."

      The Black Panther organization evolved from the philosophy of the SNCC. Founders Seale, Newton, and former "snic" member Carmicheal established the organization's two major themes. Education, self-esteem, knowledge of heritage, and responsibility were characteristics African Americans needed to help each other gain so that they may be the leaders of their own communities and gain political power. Second, the Panther organization blamed the government for the present condition of ghettos and slums. They believed it was the government's responsibility to rebuild that which they had so successfully created through discrimination.

History and Founders
 
PANTHERS  Beliefs
 

10 POINTS  PROGRAM
 
 
The Revolution Movement
Panther History
 

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