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Malcolm's Chronology 14.February.1965: Malcolm's home in East Elmhurst is firebombed at approximately 2:30a.m. while he and his family are sleeping--no one is injured. Later in the morning he flies to Detroit where, he delivers his last major speech; it is commercially packaged as "The Last Message."
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Malcolm moved to Harlem in 1943, at the age of eighteen. Here, he earned the nickname Detroit Red, because of his Michigan background and the reddish hue to his skin and hair. In his early Harlem experience, Malcolm was a hustler, dope dealer, gambler, pimp, and numbers runner for mobsters.
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In 1958, Malcolm married Betty X (née Sanders) in Lansing, Michigan. They had six daughters, all of whom carried the family name of Shabazz. Their names were Attallah, born in 1958; Qubilah, born in 1960; Ilyasah, born in 1962; Gamilah (... spelled Gumilah), born in 1964; and twins, Malaak and Malikah, born after Malcolm's death in 1965.
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While Malcolm had garnered increasing attention, his relationship with Elijah Muhammad became strained in 1963. Malcolm learned that contrary to Muhammad’s teaching of celibacy until marriage, Muhammad was having sexual relations with six women. Malcolm felt that Muhammad was committing fraud, and he refused to keep it a secret.
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In April 1964, Malcolm made a spiritual pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy site of Islam and the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad. He was profoundly moved by the pilgrimage, and said later that it was the start of a radical alteration in his outlook about race relations.
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"Terrill's treatment of Malcolm is groundbreaking on some levels, especially from the standpoint of its analysis of his public speeches....Rhetorical scholars and other academics will find much here to discuss." - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society,Vol. 104, No. 4
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