Malcolm X had a troubled childhood growing up in a segregated America in the 1920s and 1930s. He was convicted of burglary in 1946 and sent to prison, where he became interested in the Nation of Islam. Upon his release in 1952, he became a minister for the Nation of Islam and led mosques in Boston and Harlem. While a leader in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X advocated for racial separatism, but after leaving the Nation of Islam, he began to believe that brotherhood between blacks and whites was possible based on his reading of the Quran. He was assassinated in 1965 while giving a speech.

1. Malcolm X
Malcolm X
said that,"If you don't stand for something, you will
fall for anything." Malcolm X was born in 1925 when
segregation was still in effect. Malcolm X's
childhood was surrounded by eight brothers and
sisters. He attended West Junior High School, where
he was the only black student attending the school.
His father, Earl Little, was found dead on a streetcar
track. He had a troubled childhood.
Malcolm X was convicted, which means accused,
of burglary in Boston in
the year 1946 and was sent to prison. He was
widely read of Black Muslims and became a
Muslim Minister upon his release in 1952. He
became minister of Islamic Temple Number 7
in Boston and Number 11 in Harlem from the
honorable Elijah Muhammed, who was the
Black Muslim Leader at the time.
Malcolm X had a theory that there could be
a brotherhood between blacks and whites
after reading the Holy Quran, the book of
Islam. He tried to end segregation by
preparing speeches with his knowledge of
Islam that mightoff made the segregation law
abolished. But he never knew because during
the year it was abolished, he had a speech
which he was assassinated during his power lines.