Modern Era · North America · Politics
1965
Malcolm X assassinated
February 21, 1965
At the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan, Malcolm X was shot sixteen times by members of the Nation of Islam, the organization he had recently left. He was thirty-nine. His memoir, finished with Alex Haley and published later that year, made him an enduring voice for Black self-determination and a critic of nonviolent gradualism.
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