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Malcolm X Commemoration

Mike

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NEW YORK (AP) - Activists, actors and politicians gathered Saturday in New York City to honor civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the Harlem site where he was assassinated 50 years ago.









About 300 people converged to hear remarks from one of Malcolm X's six daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as elected officials. The ceremony was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, formerly known as the Audubon Ballroom.

A blue light shone onto the floor in the exact spot where he was gunned down. A mural with images of Malcolm X adorned a wall.

"He was just a young man who gave all that he possibly could," Shabazz said after a moment of silence marking the time of his death.

Malcolm X, whose full name was El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was 39 when he was shot in the theater on Feb. 21, 1965, as he was preparing to address several hundred of his followers.

By the time he died, the Muslim leader had moderated his militant message of black separatism and pride but was still very much a passionate advocate of black unity, self-respect and self-reliance.
 

Steve

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One gunman, Nation of Islam member Talmadge Hayer (also known as Thomas Hagan) was beaten by the crowd before police arrived;[158][159] witnesses identified the others as Nation members Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson.[160] All three were convicted in March 1966 and sentenced to life in prison.[161][162] (At trial Hayer confessed, but refused to identify the other assailants except to assert that they were not Butler and Johnson;[163] in 1977 and 1978 he reasserted their innocence and named four other Nation members as participants in the murder or its planning.)[164][165]

Butler, today known as Muhammad Abdul Aziz, was paroled in 1985 and became the head of the Nation's Harlem mosque in 1998; he maintains his innocence.[166] In prison Johnson, who changed his name to Khalil Islam, rejected the Nation's teachings and converted to Sunni Islam; released in 1987, he maintained his innocence until his death in August 2009.[167][168] Hayer, today known as Mujahid Halim,[169] was paroled in 2010.[

Disagreement doesn't seem to be taken well by muslims..
 

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