This article describes the rise of the Nation of Islam in America and Malcolm's role in it. The organization that Malcolm worked so hard to build up eventually struck him down.

I live like a man who's already dead," Malcolm X said last Thursday in a two-hour interview in the Harlem office of his Organization for Afro-American Unity. "I'm a marked man," he said slowly as he fingered the horn-rimmed glasses he wore and leaned forward to give emphasis to his words.

This is a picture and a copy of the text of the article written in the New York Times about Malcolm X's assassination. It contains interesting quotes in which Malcolm knows he will soon be killed.

This is the complete text of Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet speech. The speech sums up Macolm's view of white America. He attacks the political system, the draft, and the fact that blacks are not truly American while newly naturalized immigrants are Americans. He further uses the description of the blue eyed European to convey his image of the devil.

By Michael Eric DysonPublished: November 29, 1992 IN "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," the charismatic black religious nationalist recalls his momentous 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, a visit that would alter the course of his life and career.

This source talks about the theme of blindness in Malcolm X, especially in relation to his enlightenment on the trip to Mecca.

This biography is very interesting because of the information it contains. Whereas the Alex Haley version had hundreds of pages of Malcolm's hustler stage, this condenses it into one sentence. It also talks more about Malcolm's relationship with MLK, quoting him as saying that he made MLK's job easier because when given the choice they would not prefer his violent attitude over King's peacefulness.

This lesson brings up an interesting point. While Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. seemingly were polar opposites, they also shared common goals. Malcolm also became less violently opposed to whites after his trip to Mecca, more in line with MLK's views

Fewer Than 1 in 5 Express Favorable View Of The Religion

A poll that was taken a little less than two years ago shows that 45% of Americans are unfavorable of the religion of Islam, and Muslim people in generally. This number jumped from 33% in 2002, generally due to terrorist acts being blamed on the religion as a whole. Malcolm X was one of the first outspoken supporters of the religion in America, one in which many Americans generally do not have much knowledge about. He spoke about Islam and its role in America in a time when people disliked it because it seemed strange. Today, Americans are more knowledgeable about the religion, but obviously still highly ignorant and deluded into thinking that it is the cause of actions performed by terrorists.

This compilation is based around the book Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, and co-produced and annotated by that volume's editor, Robert G. O'Meally. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to Ellison or his writings, with the specific threads -- a direct comment Ellison might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories -- explained in O'Meally's notes.

This is a track listing of an album composed of tracks that influenced Ellison in his work. An aspiring musician who went to school to study it, Ellison also grew close with many famous musicians in Harlem. These artists, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were an essential part of a thriving social scene in Harlem while Ellison wrote invisible man. The last track is a recording of Ellison's 1964 address at the Library of Congress. He speaks about "blind men on corners" and the blacks who pretend to be part of a successful white society, people whom Malcolm X spoke so strongly against years later.

This timeline, and the following pages which bring the information to current day, serves the purpose of providing accurate information on the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Starting with the original enslaving of Africans in Jamestown and other colonies, it describes the gross injustices committed by whites throughout the years.

American traditions and institutions perpetuate the disadvantaged positions of nonwhites in ways that black people have experienced as personal in particular situations. This importance of race in public and private life, as well as subjective experiences of racism, have drawn to existentialism both black and white philosophers who address racial issues.

The source explains the difference of black existentialism and white existentialism. A definition of the term reads, "A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will". However, while oppressed by whites in America, black existentialists cannot simply get what they want through will, so they need to include betterment for all blacks as a primary goal in life.

This document discusses an interesting social struggle, that for the better treatment of black women. It describes how this movement grew out of the black liberation movement and the women's rights movement, but explains how the Black Feminism movement is a completely different one.

The professor who shares his views in this article describes a "new racism" in America, that is seemingly transparent, invisible due to its lack of recognition. Racism has increasingly become a taboo topic, especially at colleges and universities. The author makes the point that it is acceptable to talk about different cultures in academic settings, while racism is still highly institutional in some parts of the countries and is much more of a difficult subject to discuss. This cloaking of the problem has led to the new racism and blindness of Americans to still occurring racial problems.

This source is interesting because it describes Ralph Ellison life and work, while also portraying the fact that his colleague, Richard Wright, was a foil to him. While Wrights character's were unrefined, hot-tempered, and uneducated, Invisible Man is the opposite. The article also talks about Ellison's efforts to maintain cultural identity and traditional black culture in America.

This source portrays Gatsby as an admirable man who did everything he could in pursuit of his American dream. While Nick Carraway despised "everything Gatsby stood for", he was really a man with a purpose and a desire for a better life.

For Jay Gatsby, the American Dream was one of great success and material things, and one with his love, Daisy. However, he went through an artificial process in order to obtain the social status necessary in being accepted by Daisy, which he did not really fulfill in the end. This source describes the American dream. While for some, it is a wholesome and simple life, for others it is great wealth and material prosperity.

"The source of real alcohol was obtained by smuggling it in from Mexico, Canada, and the West Indies. This trade, known as bootlegging, became quite profitable. Many of those who worked for the law did not help to rid of these problems, as they were able to make a little extra cash through bribes."

The roaring twenties were a tumultuous period in American history. Traditionalist values in the period essentially evaporated due to the profitable underground alcohol trade, new and more revealing fashion standards, and an all around freer lifestyle. Gatsby and Nick lived in the heart of the roaring twenties, and the effects of the period were felt by them through lavish parties and immoral behavior.

"Fitzgerald resented that Zelda mined their marriage for material, as he himself had done in "Tender is the Night."

This source describes F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, and the relationship between them. Zelda was troubled woman who suffered from mental illness. No matter her mental state, she knew she was Fitzgerald's muse, finally giving in and marrying him after he became successful enough. While the marraige was not long lasting and Zelda eventually wasted away in a mental hospital, she was a large influence in the themes of the Great Gatsby. Her reluctance to marry a working-class man parallels Daisy, who decided to marry Tom in order to pursue a better appearance.

Virginia Woolf talks about how a woman needs a room of one's own in order to write. But what about the room that Virginia Woolf wrote in herself? This source talks about the house that she lived in when she wrote the book and how it is getting sold by her family.

While this site is called feminist.org, it brings up an extremely pressing issue in society today, sexual harassment. Women may make up about half of the workforce and are not legally allowed to be discriminated against, but they still face hardships. The feeling of superiority that many men have over women leads to them sexually harass them in a number of cases that is ridiculous.

This source basically describes the book, but poses the questions that were the underlying purpose of Woolf in writing it. Shows how Woolf was a pioneer in gaining women rights and that A Room of One's Own is still relevant today, "every time individual creativity comes into conflict with the demands of a very commercial world."