Search results
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City on February 21, 1965, at age 39.
Dec 14, 2021 · Mujahid Abdul Halim (aka Thomas Hagan) was shot in the leg by a security guard, held and beaten by the crowd, and was arrested at the scene, while two other gunmen escaped. Five days later ...
Nov 24, 2009 · February 21, 1965: In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon...
Nov 17, 2021 · On Thursday, a judge dismissed the convictions of two of the three men found guilty of killing Malcolm X. The move came after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. acknowledged deep...
Jan 13, 2021 · Three members of the Nation of Islam were arrested for Malcolm X’s murder in 1965, but mystery still surrounds who really killed the civil rights activist.
Nov 17, 2021 · The idea that Mr. Islam, who died in 2009 at the age of 74, and Mr. Aziz, 83, were wrongfully convicted has long been clear to scholars of Malcolm X’s life and death, who have backed calls...
Nov 18, 2021 · Malcolm X was killed more than a half-century ago, but his influence is still very much alive in contemporary books, songs, films and in the national conversation about race.
Nov 17, 2021 · Two men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X were exonerated during a court hearing Thursday after a half-century effort to clear their names. New York County Supreme Court...
Nov 17, 2021 · The two men, known at the time of the killing as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, spent decades in prison for the murder, which took place on Feb. 21, 1965, when three men opened fire...
Nov 18, 2021 · Malcolm X was shot dead at a New York City ballroom in front of his family. Aziz and Islam - along with a third man, Thomas Hagan - were convicted of the murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
