• the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (entrance pictured) is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated?
• in his 1963 speech "Message to the Grass Roots", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
• Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X?

Facts on topics related to Malcolm X

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
• William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama?
• on May 21, 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. sat in the basement of the Montgomery, Alabama First Baptist Church (pictured), besieged by thousands, urging Robert F. Kennedy to desegregate interstate travel?
• the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
• the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?

Rosa Parks

• in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock, the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
• the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?

Nation of Islam

• The Hate That Hate Produced, a documentary critical of the Nation of Islam, caused the group's membership to double?
• guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder, African musician Hugh Masekela, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan?

Black nationalist

• John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?

Malcolm Shabazz

• Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X?