Born On This Day 100 Years Ago in 1925: Minister and Human Rights Activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X)

Born On This Day 100 Years Ago in 1925: Minister and Human Rights Activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X)
Born On This Day 100 Years Ago in 1925: Minister and Human Rights Activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X) Born 100 years ago today as Malcolm Little  on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska and known primarily as  Malcolm X,  El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ‎ was an African-American minister for the Nation of Islam and a human rights activist who rose to national and international prominence in the 1960s. He was a courageous advocate for the rights of Black Americans and Black people around the world, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against Black Americans, and was one of the greatest and most influential African American activists and intelletuals in U.S. history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X  as told to Alex Haley and published in 1965, remains an important, seminal read/book/memoir/text to this day, and the Spike Lee -directed feature film Malcolm X   (1992) garnered critical acclaim as well as an Academy Award nomination for Denzel Washington . To more fu…