Malcolm X
- A
Was a lifelong close ally of Martin Luther King Jr. who co-led the SCLC and championed nonviolent integration; assassinated 1965
- B
Was a U.S. senator from New York who chaired the Foreign Relations Committee throughout the 1960s; assassinated by a rival senator in 1965
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Initially advocated Black separatism (Nation of Islam) and self-defense; modified views after Mecca pilgrimage; assassinated 1965
- D
Was a 19th-century Virginia plantation owner (cotton and tobacco) who enslaved hundreds before joining the Confederacy; killed in 1865
Explanation
Influential in Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism; killed by NOI members.