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" Malcolm X's journey from hustler to Nation of Islam spokesman and to Sunni Muslim after his hajj illustrates the central role of change and the search for meaning in his life.
As a young undergraduate in 1967, I vividly recall how the closing line of Malcolm X's autobiography led me to investigate and later revert to Islam (rather than convert to Islam, since black people played a major role in establishing Islam in Arabia and many American slaves were Muslims).
Since his murder on February 21, 1965, during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York, just three months before his forty-ninth birthday, analyses of Malcolm X have focused on one or more of the following questions: a) Did he advocate violence; b) Did his assassins work alone; c) In addition to the Nation of Islam, did the American government play a role in his assassination; d) Which period of his life more closely reflects "the real Malcolm X"; and e) What might he have evolved into politically had he not been assassinated?
"!' A New York Times book review by Michael Eric Dyson on Bruce Perry's Malcolm X: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America makes reference to his alleged "hatred of women.
While the evolutionary history of Muslim organizations in the United States makes it clear that reeducation is required for blacks in order to adopt a more accurate knowledge of themselves and their practice of Islam, the average white American displays an even greater ignorance of the roots of Islam in America.