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in this issue >>> Malcolm X’s murder.

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1 March 1965

A Monthly Insight into the Current Negro Lives

OBITUARIES: Written By: Daniel Stamper

Nat King Cole Passes Away at Forty-Five.

During the night of 15 February, singer Nat King Cole succumbed to his overbearing illness in California. He had been fighting lung cancer which he was diagnosed with since last year. He was forty-five. His family and loved ones will hold a final goodbye during the next week.

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14-28 February 1965

Malcolm X Assassinated!!

The leader of Moslem Mosque Inc. was shot on 21 February at a speaking engagement in New York.

Three armed members of the Nation of Islam charged the stage upon with Malcolm was speaking. Malcolm was shot fifteen times, and was pronounced dead upon arriving at New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. A funeral procession was held in his memory on 27 February in Harlem, New York. He was then buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Malcolm X deceased in the Morgue.

On 22 February, civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot by a state trooper when attempting to aid his mother and grandfather who were being beaten by state troopers. He later died of his injuries at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma, Alabama. (Picture Right: Jimmie Lee Nat King Cole posing for the camera after being the first Negro Jackson posing for a photo before his death.) to host his own television show.

Religion and Obituaries >>>

Origins of Islam

Tempers Flare As on both sides

1 March 1965

Writer: Katelyn Hamilton

1 March, 1965 by Ty Dickey Malcolm X first gained national attention when leading a mass of about 4,000 followers of the Nation of Islam to protest the unlawful treatment of fellow members of the nation of Islam as they are beaten nearly to death and held captive at the Police Station.

Here are followers of Malcolm X and the nation of Islam protesting for bus rights after speeches by Malcolm X on education.

Johnson Hinton had suffered head contusions, scalp lacerations, and even subdural hemorrhaging after almost being beaten to death because he intervened on the excessive beating of a single African American.

Now the Nation of Islam headed

by Elijah Muhammad is fighting more than ever to expand their culture and beliefs and achieve an understanding between Whites and African Americans.

Religion >>>

Temples of the Nation of Islam Writer: Jason Davidson Approximately a year after Malcolm X was released from prison became the minister at the Nation of Islam’s Mosque in Boston. This temple was more commonly known as Temple No. 11. In the following year Malcolm X was named the minister at Temple No. 12 in Philadelphia. Later that year he became the minister at Temple No. 7 in Harlem, New York.

Malcolm X is shown here speaking at one of the temples.

In 1965, Temple No. 7 was destroyed by a bombing and relocated from its previous location of 125th and Hotel Theresa to its current location of 116th and Malcolm X Boulevard. The temple is now currently called the Malcolm Shabbaz Mosque.

The building has yellow paneling around the windows along with a green dome on the top. The ground floor is Temple No. 4, one of the many occupied by a drug store and there is a green overhang over the entrance that says temples established by the Nation Malcolm Shabbaz Multi Purpose Cultural of Islam.

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The religion of Islam is a mysterious one, arriving from across the ocean and influencing many African Americans throughout America. What people do not know is there is a difference between the Nation of Islam (as found here in America) and the religion of Islam. They are the same religion with similar beliefs, but different backgrounds.

The religion of Islam was founded by the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century A.D. Muhammad was an Arabian merchant from the city of Mecca. He claimed to have been visited by the angel of Gabriel, and was told he was the messenger of Allah (this means God). He soon began preaching his beliefs and Allah’s teachings and it spread quickly due to the trade routes. It soon became one of the world’s fastest growing religions.

Islam is a monotheistic (a belief in a single God) religion, which means “submission” or “surrender”.

Members of Islam read the Quran and worship Allah. They follow a strict moral code and taught camaraderie with other Muslims.

The Nation of Islam was founded

by Wallace Fard in the 1930’s. He claimed that Christianity was forced upon African Americans during times of slavery, and that it was a white man’s religion.

He preached that Islam was closer to African roots and their identity. This religion attracted many African Americans, including many criminals because they were searching for something to believe in.

The focus of the Nation of Islam did not include integration, but quite the opposite. They want African Americans to make, and set up their own churches and schools.

Later Fard mysteriously disappeared and Elijah Muhammad stepped up to become the leader of the movement, calling himself the new prophet. He lives in Chicago, and is the center point for the Nation of Islam today, regulating the creation of new temples, and designating Brothers and Sisters to spread his teachings and gain followers around America.

(Above) Prophet Elijah Muhammad

ask the writer >>>

Q: What is Black Muslim Faith? a combination of the religious aspects A: ItofisIslam with the ideas of both black power and Black Nationalism.

(Above) Mecca

The city of Mecca was the birthplace of the religion of Islam. It is said that the prophet Muhammad was born here, and it is still worshiped by Muslims today.