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Malcolm X was born in 1925 as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a minister and follower of Marcus Garvey. The death of Malcolm X’s father, possibly at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, directly contributed to the nervous breakdown of his mother and the placement of Malcolm and his siblings in foster homes. As he grew older, he became active in criminal activities, which eventually led to his incarceration.
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Towards the end of 1963 Malcolm X became increasingly frustrated by the fatalism and the narrow sectarianism of the Muslim faith. The break with Muhammad gave him the opportunity to set up new organizations of his own, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He now abandoned political abstentionism and urged upon blacks the need to organize voter registration drives and to develop political unity in order to exploit their pivotal position in elections.
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