What the records say
- When
- 21 Feb 1965
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 1
- Coordinates
- 40.84° N, 73.94° W
- Description
- killing on February 21, 1965
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Assassination of Malcolm X
1965 murder in New York City, U.S.
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a Muslim African American minister and Black power activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 39 while preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “اغتيال مالكوم إكس أو الحاج مالك شباز رئيس اتحاد الأفارقة الأمريكان والمتحدث الرسمي لحركة أمة الإسلام أثناء وجوده في قاعة المؤتمرات في مدينة نيويورك”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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