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Malcolm X is assassinated.

1965

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Malcolm X, former minister in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (NOI) and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), is murdered in Harlem, New York.

Most known for his strong belief in Black nationalism, self-determination, and militancy within the civil rights movement, he is a target of surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for over a decade before he is killed.

The two men who are arrested for his murder claim innocence, but they spend over 20 years in prison until they are exonerated after new evidence that the FBI had previously withheld surfaces.