Malcolm X (pronounced /'mælk?m '?ks/; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965),
born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister, public
speaker,
and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous
advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white
America
in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.[6] His
detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy,
antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and
most influential African Americans in history, and in 1998, Time named
The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential
nonfiction books of the 20th century
